UM gig history

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29 May 2009  7pm  Unitarian Church Hall, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge

Support from UM and The Doozer. Tickets limited to 150, advance booking advised. No bar, BRING YOUR OWN. No glass bottles please. Directions below. TOILETS PROVIDED!

11 Mar 2008  8-11ish  The Portland, Cambridge

Felix Kubin + UM + Man From Uranus

@ The Portland

129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, CB4 3BA

Cost : tbc

7 Jul 2006  all-dayer  The Windmill, Brixton

UM+?

This is being put together by Steve Adams of The Broken Family Band...

That's all I know....

23 Jun 2006  ?  The Roadhouse, Manchester

SAN's

>>>> Expo festival in Manchester 24-26 June 2006

with UM + Ascoltare + others

14 Jun 2006  7.30PM   POT BLACKAutopark, off Eastgate St, Bury St Edmunds.

Thursday 15th June
PLANET BEET @ POT BLACK
Autopark, off Eastgate St, Bury St Edmunds.
Next to BuryBowl.
THE LAST PLANET BEET GIG
(and Jason's Birthday)
featuring UM, Stuffy & the Fuses,
Polariss, Dave Jago, Trev Hurley, Tommy Twist
and very special guests..
(DOORS OPEN AT 7:30pm)
Yes, it's true, after 211 Planet Beet gigs, this really will be the last one. We may or may not return in the future. We just don't know yet. Please come and make this last Planet Beet night one to truly remember, for all the RIGHT reasons!! You must surely all know UM by now right? Sometimes funny, sometimes surreal lyrics over wonky/funky beats that sound like they're played on a broken CD player. Pure genius. Stuffy/Fuses play angular, yelping pop songs, with the noise elements of Fugazi, and the quirkiness of The Cardiacs, fronted by an almost-standing singing drummer called Stuffy, who also happens to be Graham Coxon's drummer. The rest of the acts will only be playing a few songs each, and we're opening at 7:30pm to fit in as much as possible. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY SO YOU DON'T MISS ANYTHING!!

www.thesecrethairdresser.co.uk
www.oldschoolstudios.co.uk
www.animal-planet.co.uk
www.madebyanna.co.uk
www.laprecords.co.uk
www.planetbeet.co.uk
www.thecovertstylist.co.uk
www.mrjason.co.uk
www.weezish.com

13 Jun 2006  8PM-ISH?  The Portland Arms

YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE THIS GIG TO AVOID HIPSTER REGRET

... the return of Ariel Pink, suburban LA's foremost producer of warmly weird homebaked lofi psych-flavoured 60s/80s-tyle rock/pop,
on Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label. For fans of The Fall, Guided By Voices,
Joe Meek, early Microphones, Amon Duul, Bobby Conn, The Gong Show ... Tour support comes from Belong; New Orleans labelmates of Greg Davis and Keith Fullerton Whitman whose all-enveloping fuzzy sound/image loops are reminiscent of Fennesz, Kevin Shields or M83.


Advance tickets on sale now.


Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (Paw Tracks, Southern Latitudes)
Belong (Carpark) live set + video
Man From Uranus (Strange Lights)
UM vs bad timing djs: back-toback cassette dj sets
Wednesday 14th June 2006
The Portland, 129 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge
Entry: 5.00 adv/concs, 6.00 door


Advance tickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/10611


Thanks for reading ...


Bad Timing
http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/

Yeah me and Jo Bad timing are doing a back to back cassette war using my Sharp GF-777...

11 May 2006  8PM  Luminaire, Kilburn

The Luminaire and Blang presents
SETH OF DUFUS
+ Filthy Pedro and The Intolerable Kidd
+ UM
+ Lou Psyche

The Luminaire is located at:
311 High Road
Kilburn
London NW6 7JR

Doors 8.00
£6 via WeGotTickets

Headlining the inaugral Lumianire/Blang night is Seth of Dufus - the founder and incomparable lead orchestrator of New York’s jazz pop metal funk easy listening choral psychedelic folk orchestral reggae improv freakshow; Seth Hebert-Faergolzia. Searching for the bag to file the ROIR Records collective into, reviewers often cite Frank Zappa, but that doesn’t account for the soul that is as much a part of their magic as the madness. Dufus are touring as a duo with Seth joined by Erin Riedel - one of the beautiful girls of the Dufus choir - on bass and vocals.
If they were comedy:
The Furry Freak Marx Brothers.
In technicolour.
With 3D surrow-wow-wownd sound.
Main support are Filthy Pedro and The Intolerable Kidd, now expanded to a duo with Anglesey’s psychedelic historian Simon Parry now joined by Thee Intolerable Kidd on bass and saw. For fans of impenetrable accents, intolerable magnificently moody sidekicks, lo-fi thrills and history lessons from a semi-naked man in a mask.
Comedian:
Krusty The Clown.
Before that we've Um; music hall techno from Cambridge’s electro-pop absurdist. Humour! Style! Hand-jiving! Furry hats!
If he were a comedian:
Peter Cook.
Opening proceedings is Lou Psyche. Playing as a duo tonight (with drummer), Lou is a superb songwriter playing skiffle punk heartbreak with razor sharp humour.
If she were a comedienne:
A Cockney Caroline Aherne.

6 May 2006  8  Man On The Moon

The next Bad Timing night will be

Sunday 7th May 2006
A night of electro/guitar spacepop/lofi beats from London and Cambridge
Agaskodo Teliverek (feat. The Accountant(Adaadat)) + Ommm (Adaadat) +
Man From Uranus + UM
Man on the Moon, Norfolk St, Cambridge
Entry: 4.00 concs/adv (from Bad Timing website or reply
to this message with name(s) and quantity)/ 5.00 door
http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/
More details below ...


Advance tickets for Venetian Snares + DJ Scotch Egg at The Soul Tree 5/6/06
are now on sale from wegottickets.com:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/10336


More details on future events including Snares, Ariel Pink and Esquilax
soon.


Agaskodo Teliverek
(New duo feat. Miklos `The Accountant' Kemecsi (Adaadat))


Trashy off-kilter guitar-driven twisted electronic hard-rock
jungle-bebop breakbeat mashups! Think early 80s Fall guitar meets Casio
beats (something like the lost Hungarian descendents of `The Man Whose
Head Expanded'?). Live shows involve
live guitar/instruments plus cowboy gear, wet suits, Star Wars toy abuse
and impersonations of Barney Rubble ...
http://www.myspace.com/agaskodoteliverek


Ommm:
(Adaadat)
Ramshackle space-pop built out of freaky synths, 4-track tapes and old
drum machines put to a new use. His difficult to ignore live show
involves live synthesizer abuse,
audience participation and nonstop beats like a pinball table on
multi-ball triggering an 808. Ommm has previously collaborated with
labelmate DJ Scotch Egg and recently played for Bad Timing with Dyse and
Aotea.
http://www.adaadat.com/artist.php?artist=8


Man From Uranus:
(Strange Lights, Projector, White Label Music)
MFU brings you retro-futuristic Moog tunes, space soundtracks and
avant-garde noise with influences from Sun Ra and Stockhausen to
Jean-Jacques Perrey and The Fall. Recently featured on Ann Shenton's
(ex-Add N to (X)) Electronic Bible 2 compilation as well as releasing on
Strange Lights Records.
http://www.manfromuranus.com/


UM
(Strange Lights, Tripel, Projector)
More `darkly surreal explorations of the poetical and polemical' from
UM, one-man purveyor of skewed, highly personal and drily humourous
electronic pop.
http://www.umbusiness.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=damnsavage





http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/

30 Apr 2006  6.30  Ross Street Community Centre

You know the drill.





Vegan feast for 7 quid





plus yr live Dave Crowbar, some college ladies and yr Pete um spinning yr gentler musics of the world.

28 Apr 2006  7.30PM  Mildmay Club, Newington Green

I DJed at a wedding.

20 Apr 2006  8PM  8 Argyle Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

THIS IS A PRIVATE PARTY!!!


(but I feel the need to document it since I'm playing records from 1976 only and Sam is going to be doing a set too).

Hello carefully selected potential guests,

On Friday the 21st of April, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be
celebrating her 80th Birthday. In honour of this special event, I will
be hosting a party at 8 Argyle Street, Cambridge from 8pm onwards, which
will provide an opportunity for us to rejoice in our everlasting love
and respect for our great monarch.

As luck would have it, it's my 30th Birthday at exactly the same moment.
The celebrations will take the form of a "1976 Party" at which you are
requested to dress in the style of the day. The Euro-famous pop star
and DJ Pete "Um" will be attempting to keep us entertained playing only
music that was released in that glorious year (with a special guest
appearance from the little known DJ Dyer).

Guests are invited to contribute the amount of alcohol (or whatever
their chosen poison might be) they deem appropriate to make the event
run smoothly.
Directions, should you require them, can be found here
http://tinyurl.com/nhc5r

It might be good if you could let me know if you're coming, especially
if you need a place to stay in Cambridge.

Looking forward to seeing you there...

love
rich

5 Apr 2006  8:30  The Portland Arms

UM (headlining as exercise in humiliation)
The Vichy Government (second on the bill to UM)
Usedtobecool (breakcore)

27 Mar 2006  8-ish?  The Social W1, 5 Little Portland Street, London

Not totally sure what's going on here but should be some UM, some Ninki V and some kind of Man From Uranus input but maybe you should ask Phil...

That's the cover of the record above if you want to buy one.

25 Mar 2006  ? PM  ?, Nantes, France

UM +
- ELECTRIC RESCUE + DJ JEDI http://electricrescue.com
- THE GEORGES HABITBOL BROTHERS http://www.ghbaddicted.com
+ Dj's between and seemingly after

"Pete UM se considère comme "une Popstar de Communauté". Ses performances sont un divertissement expérimental idiosyncratique (sic) , sa musique a été décrite comme l'enfant musical né de l'amour entre Ray Davies (Songwriter britannique) et Genesis P. Orridge (légende vivante du groupe culte Psychic TV).
Il produit des collages de son lo-fi à l'aide de divers dispositifs sonores qui deviennent les bandes-sons pour, au choix, des chansons tristes ou drôles, qui sonnent comme si elles s'étaient déglinguées dans leur route vers les haut-parleurs. De la même manière que les chasseurs Bushmen imitent les mouvements de leur proie avec leurs pieds pendant qu'ils marchent, Um nourrit le besoin toujours répété du public d'être divertit par quelque chose de nouveau."

Salut maintenant, my British chums!

6 Mar 2006  8PM-9:30PM  http://www.resonancefm.com/

UM: Live on Resonance FM 8PM Monday 6th February

http://www.resonancefm.com/

on this show:

http://www.youarehear.co.uk/

23 Feb 2006  ?  Colchester Arts Centre

NOTE!!!

DATE HAS CHANGED TO 23rd FEB!!!!

Would UM be interested in doing a show at Colchester Arts Centre on Tuesday 21st February? This will be part of our maniacal FRANKO B season sharing a bill with a lineup hopefully consisting of Freeze Puppy, Everett True, Andrew Bailey and Kiep Kino.

Only trouble is I’m tight on budget again so can’t pay more than £50 but can throw in some beers too.
is looking pretty good on the whole with sets from People Like Us, The London Dirthole Co, Luke Vibert, Ceephax, Justice Yeldham and a whole host of other things.

22 Feb 2006  8-ish?  The Soul Tree, Cambridge

Dive Dive


Magic Um Business (actually this is me compereing 'cos I love it so much and doing a set also)


The Resistance


Furious Sleep





Tickets are the princely sum of £5

18 Feb 2006  6PM-10PM  Ross Street Community Centre, Cambridge.

Wild Thyme - Community Cafe
3 Course Vegan Meal
DJ & Live Music - Bring your own Bottle.

Saturday 18th February
6pm - 10pm, last orders at 8pm - Ross Street Community Centre, Cambridge.

£7, unwaged £5, kids £3
If you can afford it... pay more. If you can't, pay less.

Wild Thyme is a community cafe run by volunteers from the Cambridge Action Network. Food is donated by Arjuna Wholefood co-operative and cooked by Mouth Music.

Any money raised will be donated to the ‘Camp for Climate Action’ which aims to take action against climate change; provide information on climate change and its causes; share and live practical solutions.

www.climatecamp.org.uk

(Be warned... Previous Wild Thymes have sold out fast!)

3 Feb 2006  8:30  cb2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk

Yellow Swans
Um
Longing (tbc)
Friday 3rd Feb, 8:30pm
CB2, £5

26 Jan 2006  8-11PM  The Portland Arms

> For our first night of the year Bad Timing is
> proud to present a special night featuring Kosmische,
> with guest Kosmische DJs plus four live acts selected
> by Kosmische/ResonanceFM DJ Jim Backhouse and Bad Timing.
>
>
> Thurs 26th January 2006
> Romvelope (Adaadat) + Man From Uranus + Sculpture + UM
> + Kosmische DJs
> The Portland
> 129 Chesterton Rd Cambridge
> Price: £6/£5 advance reservations or concs
> 8-11, bar till 11:30, close: 12:00
> Reservations from http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/
> or reply to this message with a name and number of reservations wanted
>
>
> The next confirmed Bad Timing night will be the return of both
> DJ Scotch Egg and OVe-NaxX (who supported DJ /Rupture in 2004) plus
> further noisy Japanese wrongness from Doddodo and Gulpepsh,
> Weds 8th March at The Portland.
>
>
> KOSMISCHE
> London's legendary Kosmische club is now into its 10th year of providing a home for krautrock, Japanese noise, minimal electronic pop, Neue Deutsche Welle (late 70s/early 80s German New Wave), 8bit/electro, experimental electronics and other underground music past and present. As well as resident DJs, the live acts featured over the years are too numerous to mention but include V/Vm and Damo Suzuki, with whom Kosmische DJs played at the last ATP Festival.
>
>
> Recent playlists cover Sun Ra, Can, Neu!, Boredoms, DAF, Der Plan, Kevin Blechdom, Felix Kubin, Throbbing Gristle, Ruins, Kraftwerk, Devo, Coil, Captain Beefheart, The Residents, Amon Duul ...
> www.kosmische.org
>
>
> ROMVELOPE (adaadat)
> Romvelope, aka Bjørn Hatleskog, co-founder of the Adaadat label (DJ Scotch Egg, Ommm, The Accountant, DJ 100000000) makes `21st century car crash pop songs' where manic Felix Kubin/Mouse on Mars-style 8-bit melodies meet everything from electro and hip-hop to disco, country and western, interspersed with experimental noise. For fans of Soft Pink Truth and Jason Forrest/Donna Summer.
> www.romvelope.com
>
>
> MAN FROM URANUS (strange lights)
> Back at Bad Timing for the first time since last summer, MFU brings you retro-futuristic Moog tunes, space soundtracks and avant-garde noise with influences from Sun Ra and Stockhausen to Jean-Jacques Perrey and The Fall.
> www.manfromuranus.com
>
>
> SCUPLTURE
> Sculpture is the work of Dan Hayhurst who breathes life into old old tape machines creating the most blissful music of the future, melding tape loops and synths. Think Black Dice meets radiophonics/plunderphonics.
> www.ultimatezon.co.uk
>
>
> UM (strange lights, tripel)
> Always a difficult artist to do justice to in writing, a recent write-up describes him as
> `Cambridge's favourite son deliver[ing] a hop-scotch of disparate styles and production techniques that range from V/VM style cartoontronica through to mahogany folk songs covered in tarnished pink glitter' (boomkat)
> www.umbusiness.co.uk
>
>
> Thanks for reading
>
>
> http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/
>

11 Jan 2006  8:30 or so  The 12 Bar Club, London

UM + tbc

21 Dec 2005  8-ish?  The Cellar Bar, Cambridge

UM + mince pies + tbc

I guess this is a private ting but I might have some guesties...

15 Dec 2005  8-ish?  Hoxton Bar & Grill

UM

+

?

The Hat is the night run by the Captain band...

10 Dec 2005  8-ish?  It's a secret.

If I told you anything about this I would have to kill you.

28 Nov 2005  8-ish?  The Portland Arms again

28/11/05

bad timing and uk carnage present
bad timing 4th birthday

dj scotch egg
(adaadat, wrong music)

The Portland
129 Chesterton Rd Cambridge
Price: £5.00
Start: 8:30



chav and dave
Grimey ASBO beats from the Crusaders of UK Carnage.

> www.chavanddave.com


um
> www.umbusiness.co.uk



bad timing djs

24 Nov 2005  ? PM  The Fuzz Club Sheffield

The Fuzz Club
Sheffield

Um

Hot Chip

+ ?

19 Nov 2005  ?PM  (the all-new) WORM, Rotterdam, Holland

I guess you could put it like this:

Na een maand proefdraaien is het dan eindelijk zover: de officiële kick off! Hoewel de definitieve vorm van het programma op het moment van schrijven niet geheel duidelijk is, hier alvast het hoofdgerecht:



MAX TUNDRA
Max Tundra staat al behoorlijk lang op ons verlanglijstje, de Britse Domino recording artist Ben Jacobs is een man met teveel goede ideeën. Met zijn over-the-top popmuziek bewijst hij zijn creativiteit zonder daarbij zijn muziek ontoegankelijk te maken. ¨Max Tundra makes information overload a deeply pleasurable experience.¨ (BBC).



DJ ELEPHANT POWER
De Brusselse dj Elephant Power, voormalig lid van Scratch Pet Land, is een aanwinst van het Keulse Sonig label. Zoals zijn naam doet vermoeden is hij een energieke turntablist, die uitblinkt in de draaikunsten met eclectische platen.



UM
Een eerste optreden tijdens WORM@de Player was zo goed bevallen dat we deze geweldige minidisk crooner/performer uit Engeland ook dit maal een uitnodiging stuurden.



PUYO PUYO
Vrolijke en wispelturige melodieën gecombineerd met crunchy beats... de Fransen omschrijven de muziek van deze electrobot als ¨deviant electropop ´n´roll. Wij stemmen in.







max tundra



Links Puyo Puyo UM dj Elephant Power Max Tundra

Locatie WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam



zoek
pics & vids
colofon

18 Nov 2005  ? PM  (the all-new) WORM, Rotterdam, Holland

This is the event celebrating the opening of the new venue run by the Worm people in Rotterdam. I'm playing both this night and the next.

Other details to follow.

(Invite only)

29 Oct 2005  ?  Ross Street Community Centre

Don't have all the details but:

The wife is cooking, and I'm playing non-threatening but decent music, cos the last time I played I put on "Happy" by The Stones and a twat in a beard disguise came and complained about the music.

27 Oct 2005  evening  TemporaryContemporary Gallery Deptford London

Frieze art show


FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER


MAN FROM URANUS curates evening of SOUNDS


'FLYING SOLO'


with MFU Ninki V UM SCULPTURE others tbc

NB: Um Appearance cancelled!!!!


TemporaryContemporary Gallery Deptford London

22 Oct 2005  4PM-10PM  The Charterhouse Bar, Farringdon, London

Not many details as yet but I'm playing and it starts and finishes early but goes on a while...

17 Oct 2005  ? PM  Anglia Polytechnic, Cambridge

I know nothing about this but it might be "cabaret"

Jesus!

12 Oct 2005  8-ish?  Pot Black Snooker Club, Bury St. Edmunds

I'm headlining this one and it's all about the late great John Peel.

OK. News just in:

UM + Dave Jago + Hobopope & the Goldfish Cathedral + Manray +DJs Neil + Ken (from the Rehearsal Rooms) & Tom Watson

The Penguin Encyclopedia Of Rock says:

"Dave Jago does sort of operatic disco rock, with an MP3 player for backings, and his rockstar frontman thing. Hobopipe is sort of experimental stuff with Minidisc and guitar, bass and synth I think. One bloke. Him and Dave will join forces for one song. Manray is an all girl, shambolic, C86 style indie band, without drums or bass. They hammer a bass drum though sometimes. 3 DJs, from the rehearsal room."

10 Oct 2005  8:30  cb2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk

11/10/05

kevin blechdom
(chicks on speed, tigerbeat6)

CB2
5-7 Norfolk Street Cambridge
Price: £5/£4 concs/adv
Start: 8:30
> reservations


planningtorock
(twisted nerve, rostron)

> www.rostronrecords.net (homepage)
> www.twistednerve.com/weekly/releases/tni004.html (audio clips)




um
(strange lights, tripel)


> www.umbusiness.co.uk
> www.strange-lights.co.uk



bad timing djs

8 Oct 2005  evening  Anglia University SU Bar

Um

LADYTRON

(should really be The Resistance supporting the LADYTRON but I only take up vertical space and that's what's important, apparently. Plus you can't say no to Simon Baker.)

20 Sep 2005  8-ish?  Colchester Arts Centre

GAEOUDJIPARL

+ UM

+ THE CARETAKER (TBC)

+ THE BURGESS SHALE

+ Lionshare

Tickets £5 / £4 concessions

Doors 8pm

Finishes 11pm ish.

Box Office: 01206 500900





Website (buy tickets online): www.colchesterartscentre.com

Colchester Arts Centre





Church Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF

16 Sep 2005  ?  ?, Den Haag, The Netherlands

UM
Man From Uranus
+ others. Details to follow...

14 Sep 2005  Hammer time  Bastard, Berlin

planet rock ninth birthday!

live
vernon & burns (gagarin, glasgow)
philipp quehenberger (cheap, wien)
felix kubin feat. mark boombastik (gagarin, hamburg / berlin)
um & man from uranus

djs
susi ondrusova (skug, wien)
dani fromm (laut.de, berlinstinkt.de, ravensburg)

13 Sep 2005  Hamburg time  Weltbuhne, Hamburg

More details to follow...

2 Sep 2005  2PM-7PM-the pub  Unknown location, Peterborough

This is a private party, obviously. The soundsystem is going to be a guitar amp. I'm only doing this because they asked nicely, I like a laugh and Peterborough is such a pretty place.

30 Aug 2005  11PM-2AM  Soul Tree

LAST MINUTE ADDITION =



Pete Um on the decks for three hours. Jesus!



It's up to me if I want to do an Um set, but I'm thinking it's unlikely unless there's almost absolutely nobody there. Otherwise I'll be playing...er, a lot of stuff.

18 Aug 2005  nighttime  The Albany, Great Portland Street, London

Um
Chikinki
The Fallout Trust
Hat DJs.

12 Aug 2005  doors 2PM  All Saints Church

Dear all,

Time for an update on Palimpsest Festival.....

KIILA CONFIRMED FOR PALIMPSEST

Harvest Time is very please to announce Kiila are to play Palimpsest. This will be their first English show ever! Kiila recently featured in The Wire on the extended 'Sub-Arctic Explorers' article based upon the Finnish underground music scene. Here is what Fonal Records have to say about the latest Kiila record:

'On the new album Silmät sulkaset, the band gently conjures up mildly otherworldly tunes with a peaceful air and feathered eyes. What was once free pop played by two is now free folk played by seven. The language of the songs has reverted back to Finnish, and the human voices rest on a warm texture of sounds from an array of acoustic and electronic instruments. Carefully arranged songs alternate with those improvised on the spot, all bearing the mark of a handcrafted article'.

For Palimpsest, Kiila will be playing a specially stripped down show.

In addition to the Harvest Time Records stall, there will now also be a stall from the prevalent underground Finnish label Fonal with releases by artists such as Kemialliset Ystavat and Isjala

There will be more info up at www.palimpsest-festival.co.uk soon. In the mean time you can check out www.fonal.com.

Please book tickets in advance as numbers are limited and they are going fast. All major credit cards accepted online at www.htrecords.co.uk. Tickets are being sent out 2 weeks before the show.

We look forward to seeing you there.

A full Harvest Time Records update and mail out will be with you by mid next week at the latest.

Bye for now.
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Palimpsest Festival
An all day event of new music and outside folk sounds
All Saints Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
Saturday 13th August 2005
2PM – 11PM
Featuring performances from:
Alasdair Roberts
Josephine Foster
Mi and L’au
Kiila
Lionshare
Um
Dan Merrill
Fuzzy Lights
And DJs American Booze, Sami (Kiila) & Bad Timing
along with video projections, and record stalls
Tickets: £8.50 advanced / £10 on door
Advanced tickets from www.htrecords.co.uk (all major cards accepted)
More information please visit www.palimpsest-festival.co.uk
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3 Aug 2005  nighttime  The Spitz, London, UK

Thursday 4th - Spitz, London E1 The Broken Family Band/The Track & Field Organisation presents... a special themed evening of music and song

+ DJ STB
(Simply The Best)
aka Pete UM

20 Jul 2005  16th-22nd July, 2005  Valkhofaffaire Festival, Nejmegen, The Netherlands.

Valkhofaffaire festival, Nejmegen, The Netherlands.

http://www.valkhofaffaire.nl/

sunday 17th
22.00-22.45 hours
Jaap Blonk (NL) en Radboud Mens (NL)


maybe and not confirmed yet by the festival / if there is extra space?
monday 18th
Secret Mommy (CAN)


tuesday 19th
22.00-22.45 hours
Tuk (Guillaume Graux) (B)


thursday 21th
22.00-22.45 hours
UM (GB)

friday 22th
22.00-22.45 hours
Dragibus (FR)

8 Jul 2005  midday onwards  Gwydir Street

> 12-3 DJs (The Lab)
> 3-4 Pink & Red
> 4-5 Narkosis
> 5-6 Mr Zed
> 6-7 VoV (live PA)(featuring UM on one tune)
> 7-8 Rotating Leslie
> 8-9 Moe Foe
> 9-10 Loose Juice
> 10 - End DJs

21 Jun 2005  8:30  The Portland Arms

22/06/05

adaadat records night


The Portland
129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge
Price: £5/£4 concs
Start: 8:30

ommm
(adaadat)

> www.adaadat.com



the accountant
(adaadat)

> www.adaadat.com



man from uranus
(strange lights)

> www.manfromuranus.com



um
(strange lights, tripel)

20 Jun 2005  7PM doors  The Spitz, London, UK

jUST BEEN ASKED TO COMPERE THIS GIG...
(but I'm doing some tunes too).


DOORS: 7PM

UM (7.50 - 8PM)

WIYOS (8PM)

UM (8.50PM - 9PM)

SON OF DAVE (9PM)

UM (10PM - 10.15PM)

TETES RAIDES (10.15PM)

14 Jun 2005  8-ish?  The Portland Arms

Ariel Pink + Um + tbc


Ariel Pink Bio

Ariel Pink (b. Ariel Rosenberg, June 1978) is an L.A.-based home taper who for years "fell out of bed onto [his] eight-track analog cassette Yamaha MT8X." He eventually wore down the unit, which succumbed, and Yamaha no longer makes it. "I now use whatever I can get my hands on," he laments, meaning cheap, scrounged-up equipment. "I can't spend money on gear, because I don't have any." He was influenced by the DIY ethic of R. Stevie Moore, with whom he subsequently became long-distance pals. Ariel has a great pop sensibility, and plays the "standard rock line-up of guitars, keys, bass, and vocals." Noticeably absent from that roll call are drums. In fact, Ariel makes all recorded drum and percussion sounds with his mouth! "It's a funny neurotic tic, which I honed since childhood," he explains. The punchy rhythms are achieved by close-miking. "Making sounds with my mouth is more acoustically akin to what i hear in my head than miking up real drums, which people spend hours on to get the right sonic effect.


Ariel has been in bands, but records by himself. (Personal estimate: 200-300 master tapes since 1995, comprising of over 500 songs.) He occasionally gigs out, but he's never felt that club dates reflect what his music is about, because his vision is intensely personal. Unlike some artistic cave-dwellers, Ariel gets along with people; he just doesn't often make music with them "It's what always ends up happening," he says. "Sometimes I get musicians offering their services but when it comes down to it, people just don't commit to joining my crusade. I have no idea why I'm alone! But writing is easier alone."

- IRWIN CHUSID

13 Jun 2005  8:30 or so  CARGO, Rivington Street, Shoreditch,

The Broken Family Band
Currituck
UM (compere)
DJs Rob Da Bank
Piney Gir

This is how the BFB spokesperson puts it:

We're have a headline show at CARGO, Rivington Street, Shoreditch,
>>>London on June 14th with CURRITUCK CO. (one of Devendra Banhart's gang,
>>>a special boy with a special band), DJs ROB DA BANK (Radio 1 etc) and
>>>PINEY GIR (she rules) and some more lovely guests to be announced at a
>>>later date... and for a limited time we have tickets available to those
>>>in the know for only FIVE QUID. Just go here and milk those electronic
>>>teats:
>>>
>>>http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=uk&query=detail&event=126260
>>>
>>>After a while those babies are going to cost EIGHT QUID, so do the right
>>>thing, ok?
>>>

10 Jun 2005  7PM until 10PM  The Duke Of Clarence, London

The rebel, spinmaster plantpot, um, brains and virgin
and soraya allen (starvation box)
playin free show
this saturday 11th june
music is early from 7 to 10
at the duke of clarence pub
140 rotherfield street
just off essex road
near post office
n1
flyer attached
forward to everyone

8 Jun 2005  8pm - midnight  THE SPREADEAGLE SHOREDITCH

9 June THE SPREADEAGLE SHOREDITCH LONDON 8pm - midnight Freee
PSYCHOTROPIC CAROUSEL
(((((((((now))))))))))

I'll be helping the MFU dude and co out on tapes. That's the paln anyway...

3 Jun 2005  12 noon onwards  Midsummer Common, Cambridge

This year I've been asked to play on a stage, possibly even the big one, so I won't have to do that damn fool thing with the Sharp GF-777 again.

31 May 2005  8:30 or so  The Junction, Cambridge

The Magic Band (yes, thee Magic Band)

+ Um

20 May 2005  ?  The Rehearsal Rooms, Bury St. Edmunds

?

17 May 2005  ?  ?

?

16 May 2005  8:30 or so  The Portland Arms

UM

VHS Or Beta

15 May 2005  8-ish?  cb2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk

Not sure how confirmed all this is but:

Um
Steve Adams out of that Broken Family Band
Brother Danielson out of Danielson Famile

20 Apr 2005  ?  The Spreadeagle, London

UM live PA and a bit of DJing I believe...

+ other stuff

5 Apr 2005  ?  The Foundry, London

Miss Roberts curates...

no other details

23 Mar 2005  8-ish?  The Free Butt, Brighton

UM
LEBATOL
+ others tbc

15 Mar 2005  evening  The new theatre next to The Junction

All I know is that I've been asked to do a PA in the foyer before a play by a Japanese woman who used to be in Frank Chickens.

13 Mar 2005  6PM-10PM last orders 8PM  Ross Street Community Centre, Cambridge

vegan food from Mouth Music and entertainment from Pete Um on the 1210s and Dave Crowbarr on the cello.


WILD THYME
COMMUNITY CAFE

3 Course Vegan Meal
DJ & Live Music
Bring your own Bottle

Sunday 13th March
6pm - 10pm, last orders at 8pm
Ross Street Community Centre

£7, unwaged £5, kids £3
If you can afford it... pay more.
If you can't, pay less.

Any money raised will be donated to the Cambridge Action network, a local group of volunteers who work towards building a sustainable alternative to global capitalism and environmental destruction. Current activities include workshops, study groups, publishing information and organising mass demonstrations.

Tickets (should be!) available from Arjuna soon. Please get one in advance if you can...but feel free to turn up on the night too!

For a Map showing how to find Ross Street see http://tinyurl.com/5ohw5

4 Mar 2005  8:30 or so  The Portland Arms. ATTENTION!!! GIG CANCELLED!!!

4th March


Very special guests


Miighty Flashlight


featuring Mike Fellows, Matt Sweeney & Spencer Sweeney


(members of Royal Trux, (Smog), Silver Jews, Rites of Spring, Palace, Bonnie Prince Billy, Superwolf.....)


More acts tbc & full info soon


ATTENTION!!! GIG CANCELLED!!!
(Matt Sweeney got new touring commitments with Will Oldham, and other dates on the tour didn't come together. Quelle bummer.

27 Feb 2005  8:30 or so  The Prior's Inn, Bury St. Edmunds

UM + Man From Uranus +?

Note!!!

This gig was originally scheduled for 20th February. The date has changed.

23 Feb 2005  8:30 or so  cb2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk

23 Wednesday Upgrade and Afterlife CB2 Cambridge 830 to midnight 2pounds
Dan Merrill (violin thru digital processing)
Man From Uranus & Adrian Bronson (cello and analogue processing) plus Pete UM mixing layered MFU historical MFU material plus MFU Soundtracks concurrently and in realtime without knowing what the fuck he is doing.

Plus Pete UM DJ set! Fuck!

19 Feb 2005  ?  Extrapool

February 19 - sat: NL / Nijmegen - "Extrapool"

Miss Hawaii (Japan) + UM (UK)

18 Feb 2005  ?  WORM, Rotterdam, Holland

MISS HAWAII + UM
February 18 - fri: NL / Rotterdam - "WORM@de Player"


http://www.wormweb.nl/

17 Feb 2005  ?  The C- base, Rungerstrasse 20,

> 17.02.05 - The Alternative Berlin Film
Festival/Tromanale
@ The C- base, Rungerstrasse 20,
10179 Berlin
(This is a four day event with
artists running times to
(scheduled on the day)
http://www.c-base.org

UM LIVE!!!

16 Feb 2005  we don't know  Schoko-Laden, Berlin

21.00 acoustic moon
the chap
massive crew
omo
ambient rock.groove. hiphop

plus, weirdly, a last-minute possibility-of-UM.

I'm either on between acts in the typical Um style, or going on at midnight to do a few tunes before der DJ.

15 Feb 2005  doors @ 9pm  RAW-tempel

TUES 15TH FEB - ELEKTROBUFFET (name of night)
doors @ 9pm
AT; RAW-tempel
Revaler Strasse 99
10245 Berlin

12 Feb 2005  Not sure...  Hamish's House

This is a very exclusive event and you have to have been invited but it'll just be geeky computer types talking about radical left wing politics and me DJing dodgy records so you ain't missing nuthin'.

29 Jan 2005  afternoon?  Notting Hill Arts Club, London

tbc,

but Um will be there...

and probably the Spinmaster also...

22 Jan 2005  8-ish?  The Portland

UM
The Low Country
The Singing Loins

21 Jan 2005  8:30 - 12 midnite  Legends Bar @ Cambridge City FC

8<-----------------------------------------------------------------This Friday (21st Jan) we present a new night in conjunction with some friends of ours. The night is called Goo and will feature an eclectic mix of bands and DJs playing indiediscoelectronicafunkpunkrock til 12am. The first night is going to be at Legends Bar @ Cambridge City FC and features Flipron + Tom Copson Band + Lounge + Simon Lee Morgan. Plus DJ Pete playing "whatever as long as it isn't really weird"





For more info on all nights go to www.greenmind.tk or email us.

19 Jan 2005  8 sharp  The Portland

19/01/05

pawtracks/carpark tour
panda bear
(animal collective)
(pawtracks, carpark)

presented by bad timing
in association with harvest time
> www.harvest-time-recordings.com

The Portland, 129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge
Price: £6.00/£5 concs/adv
Start: 8:00
> advance reservations
(paying guest list)


Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) is best known as the main songwriter and vocalist in Brooklyn's widely admired Animal Collective. When Animal Collective played Cambridge in October 2003 (as the core duo of Panda Bear and Avey Tare), they pulled off an unforgettable set, growing out of apparent guitar/drum/vocal chaos to an electric and emotional intensity which left the audience speechless (as well as instant converts). Gaining an ever-increasing reputation for their splicing of guitar/sonic randomness and Brian Wilson-inspired sundrenched rusticated harmonic folk, in 2004 they released an album Sung Tongs for Fat Cat and also toured with Múm.

Panda Bear released his first solo outing Young Prayer on in September 2004 on Paw Tracks, Animal Collective's own sub-label of NYC's Carpark (Greg Davis, Kid606 and others). Taking the scratchy, tangled lines of Animal Collective and his unique hyper/ventilated unsteady-but-pure vocal style, Young Prayer's bare, stripped down sound finds an intimate space to explore more introspective material, with frequently uplifting results.

> www.paw-tracks.com
> fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/artistInfo.php?id=53 (animal collective)


ariel pink
(pawtracks)

Ariel Pink's music has been compared to many things recently, including Soft Pink Truth, Engelbert Humperdink, Fall demos and `tapes that've warped in the sun'.
Making his crooned karaoke-based pop in the darkest depths of LA, Ariel Pink takes classic `Lite FM' tunes and warps them into his uniquely lofi sound. His current release not only draws in lofi guitar fuzz but was mainly recorded at home on cassette on a basic setup of guitar, bass, keyboard and 8-track. His sound is beautiful, confusing but warm and sweetly addictive, as the classic-style pop traces and hooks shine through. Ariel Pink is the only non-Animal Collective artist to be signed to Paw Tracks and a new release, Worn Copy is due out in 2005.

> www.paw-tracks.com

signer
(carpark)

Signer is New Zealand's Bevan Smith. Crafting proper fuzzed-out pop gems around shifting bass/effects-heavy textures. On his latest Carpark release The New Face of Smiling the sound echoes My Bloody Valentine guitar-scapes at its core but reaches out into more rhythmic and definite vocal songs with hints of Four Tet, Flying Saucer Attack or Mogwai.

> www.carparkrecords.com

um
(strange lights, tripel)

> www.umbusiness.co.uk

19 Jan 2005  8-ish?  Cafe Afrika

UM
Flipron

+ more tbc

16 Jan 2005  tbc  The Institute Of Contemporary Arts, London

BEN CHRISTOPHERS

TEARS IN X RAY EYES

PURPLES

LITTLE NEEMO

LINNHE CATLOW & PETE MOSELEY


& UM!

18 Dec 2004  no details  no details

Obviously this is a private party and doesn't need to be advertised, but this section of the site also functions as the artist's year planner. So, DJ Me: Pete Um and DJ Alexis to feature. Now, where's that Idol 12"...?

16 Dec 2004  party time  The (all-new?) Portland Arms

UM!





Corporation Blend





Bingo





Mince Pie Tower





(not sure how many of the above are bands)





Uh, yeah, and this is invite-only of course.

2 Dec 2004  8-ish?  CB2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk

> Dean Roberts


(Kranky, Mille Plateaux, Staubgold/New Zealand/Vienna)


> Haeti


> UM


> pda


Kirk Leatham


+ bad timing and harvest time djs

28 Nov 2004  1PM onwards  Cafe Afrika

UM + various usual suspects

27 Nov 2004  doors 7PM show: 7:45-9:45PM  Mildmay Club on Newington Green, Hackney

Spukhafte Fernwirkungen - Call for submissions



Cabaret Night: A special Occasion





EVENT DESCRIPTION

A special occasion is a night of rapidly unfolding cabaret in the East End
of London - quirky memories from 1920s Berlin flowing in, coming to life in
2004 Hackney.



The best of local talent joins for a one-off event to perform raw perfection
theatre and sensuous music repertoire to create a special and imaginative
mélange of avant-garde pleasures for eyes and ears.



Bringing people together in the unique Mildmay Club on Newington Green, A
special Occasion cherishes images of Hackney's character, as well as
reviving a long standing entertainment tradition.





EVENT DETAILS

Time and date: 27th November, doors open 7pm, show begins at 7.45, interval
at 8.45, ends at 9.45, Stage: 9x5 meters, 1,60 m height,





Calling for



* Compere
* Gospel Choir
* Solo Artist dancer
* Dance group
* Solo Artist - Diva
* Magician
* Double Act
* Solo Artist - Actor
* Band - Folk
* Solo Artist - Singer
* Cigar Girl
* Marylin - look-alike
* Sailor





PLEASE SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO



Spukhafte Fernwirkungen

13 Martaban Rd

London N16 5SJ

JohannaDamm@hotmail.com; k_astral@hotmail.com

07949 210 602



DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS - 30th August

AUDITIONS - 5th September




******************************************************************


BACKGROUND - SPUKHAFTE FERNWIRKUNGEN



Spukhafte Fernwirkungen are Hackney based and this provides the point of
departure for A Special Occasion. The event is designed as an evening of
cabaret, which takes place on the physical boundaries of the Borough and
explores its jittery glamorous personality past and present. Spukhafte
Fernwirkungen pursue a curatory path of gathering fresh as well as
established talent from the area and inciting an interaction with
established traditions and idiosyncrasies inside a gem of local
architecture. The evening is a tribute to Hackney's continuous flow of
change and consolidation, by enjoying and rejoicing in a carefree evening of
quality entertainment.







The Mildmay, a 1880 Working Men's Club has been secured as the hosting
venue, and its management committee has indicated its full support for A
Special Occasion. With the location at the heart of the event's concept, the
programme has been designed for local participation.





A Special Occasion grasps the core of Hackney as studying borough's history
and culture discloses that enjoying a special night out, and pursuing strong
interaction with fellow citizens has always been a fundamental character
trait of Hackney lifestyle. On the quest for the identity of the Borough,
provocatively choosing a location on its border with Islington, A Special
Occasion brings artists to participate in reviving historical links of
locations and forms of entertainment. The audience are treated to an
extraordinary selection of unique acts of amusement and enjoy the benefits
generated by shared enjoyment.





A Special Occasion cherishes Hackney's identity and makes its changing face
visible, using an old-fashioned (but reviving) form of entertainment -
cabaret. Hackney based performers from a range of artistic backgrounds get
the opportunity to find a local angle to their work and present this in
front of the audience that nurtured the composition in the first place. The
public comes to see outstanding Hackney cabaret acts that reflect their
immediate surroundings and the culture and diversity of the Borough.




**********************************************************************



BACKGROUND INFORMATION - SPECIAL OCCASION



Hannes Boehringer



Statement...



Hardly ever are we in the presence,

nearly always in some possible future

or in the past,

although we

always live in the presence. Taken by what was

and what may or could be,

we are able to part from that which is now, that which surrounds us...





...but then...





Nearly Nothing differentiates the simplicity from the ordinary life,

other than the recognition

that one is,

one does

nothing special.





....If ....





Nothing Special implies to undo

the dualism of ............I and the World, .........Seeming and Being,
............Mind and Matter, ............Holy and Mundane,
..............Art and Life.





.... And this is the reason for A special Occasion....





This exactly is the Special of Being, of Mind, of the Holy and of Life,
NOTHING special but ungraspable, fluid, fluxus.DADA monsters

_________________________________________________________________

8 Nov 2004  8-ish?  Cambridge City FC Football Ground

*****************************
For tickets for this show and all others, either phone 01223 511511 or go to www.wegottickets.com.

Cambridge City Football Club, Milton Road,
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 1UY


Green Mind Promotions
www.greenmind.tk

18 Oct 2004  8:30-11:00  The Portland, Cambridge

Tuesday 19th October 2004
Printed Circuit (Tigerbeat6,Irritant,Catmobile)
Random Number
(Irritant,Rock Action,Catmobile)
UM
(Strange Lights, Tripel)
The Portland, Cambridge
8:30-11:00
4.00 (adv/concs)/5.00 (door)

(flyer art by Syd)

15 Oct 2004  evening (8:30?)  Filthy McNasty's, 68 Amwell Street, Clerkenwell, EC1 0171 837 6067

UM Live at:

68 Amwell Street, Clerkenwell, EC1 0171 837 6067

11 Oct 2004  at night  The Free Butt, Brighton

UM

& others tbc

5 Oct 2004  7-12PM  the charthouse bar in farringdon

2 other acts (isle
if wight + recon)+ UM and 3 dj's

24 Sep 2004  9pm-2am  HUGOS SPEAKER PALACE

Saturday 25 September 9pm-2am 4pounds

((((((((electrical music show)))))))))) HUGOS SPEAKER PALACE
14 Andre street hackney E8, off Amhurst road

Here's a map of where the venue is:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&db=pc&lang=&addr1=&client=public&addr2=&advanced=&addr3=&pc=E82AA&quicksearch=e8+2aa&cidr_client=none

Line-up:

UM

Man From Uranus & Little Princess Orchestra

The Chap

9 Sep 2004  8-ish?  The Spitz, London, UK

Dunno much about this gig yet but apparently what they do is record the show and then put it out as a free CD.

30 Aug 2004  evening (8:30?)  The Social W1, 5 Little Portland Street, London

DJs plus UM

www.thesocial.com

13 Aug 2004  all day and most of the night  Three Wells Farm, Blo Norton, Diss, Norfolk

The Fashion, Dopejam, Possom Fodder, Um, The Brain Of Morbius, DJ Dolomite, Becky Jago, Percy Thrower, Days Ago, The Getway, Tommy Twist & The Jives, The Moon Office, Skrewworm, Pixelface, Onslow, Opposite the Hotel, Die Away From Me, Dispite Tuesdays Plan, Dyslexic 7, Infedels, Swallows, Black Ribbon, Ennay, Black out, The Burn, Fat Alice, Y.N.C., P.A.I.N., Ten Benson,and many more

Three Wells Farm, Blo Norton, Diss, Norfolk IP22 2HZ tel:01953 681 253 text:07909 540 840

10 Aug 2004  8:30 or so  12 Bar Club, London

UM
+ approx 3 more acts tbc

16 Jul 2004  8-ish?  Anglia polytechnic, Cambridge

We are astonished to announce that:
Greenmind, in association with other parties, are to present a show at Anglia Polytechnic on Sat 17th of July 2004...

The Damo Suzuki Network (which in your vicinity will
feature Terminal Cheesecake as the 'soundcarriers')

and UM to support and DJ!

tickets are on sale from wegottickets.com and the
junction box office-£7.00 in advance £8.00 on door.

Fuck!

15 Jun 2004  8-ish?  Cafe Afrika

UM
+ I'll let you know.

9 Jun 2004  8PM  The Prior's Inn, Bury St. Edmunds

Thur 10th - PLANET BEET's 100TH GIG!!! (& JASON & Disco Jon's Birthday gig) - THE ANIMAL HAIRDRESSER (members of Animal Planet & The Secret Hairdresser, doing covers!) + UM + Dom & Rob (Dom & Rob are ex-The Light Outside. Rob is in The Secret Hairdresser) (+DJ, & hosted by GEORDIE!)

4 Jun 2004  4PM-ish onwards  Midsummer Common, Cambridge

I'll be utilising the Sharp GF 777 with the mic input and the built in echo effect and literally singing over tapes wherever and whenever till I get bored or the batteries run out.

Just hope we get a moderately dry one...

29 May 2004  [live 3-5pm gmt]  web broadcast wherever you is...

30:05:04 loopsoup's sunday service [live 3-5pm gmt]

hosted by the omnipotent 'vacuum knob jockeys'...
on the menu this month is a generous helping of hot new tunes from loopsoup affiliated artists, 2 side portions from our very special live guest "um" [...a wee description here would be nice...], and loads more aural pleasure ('hem)

(or something likle that...)

http://www.loopsoup.com

http://www.umbusiness.co.uk

live text chat @ http://www.loopsoup.com/chat

our hosts > http://www.209radio.co.uk
streamed @ http://www.live365.com/stations/thrank

25 May 2004  8:30 - 12 midnite  cb2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk

upgrade & afterlife

a new night of experimental&improv&diy
guitar&electronic&digital music
in cambridge, uk

created by harvest time & bad timing

first night:
Man From Uranus
UM
Haeti
Ascoltare
pda
Kirk Leatham


wednesday 26th may 2004
cb2 basement, norfolk st, cambridge, uk
times: 8:30-12:00. entry: £2.00

11 May 2004  8PM-ish  The Spitz, London, UK

UM


Hot Chip


+ more I think.


I might be DJ-ing too...

6 May 2004  10PM till early  33 commercial street whitechapel london

friday 7 may

interzone III
33 commercial street whitechapel london
a really huge and delightful warehouse party with 4K soundsystem and bar

starring:
UM
MAN FROM URANUS
ASCOLTARE
FINK
SAM AMANT AND MAN FROM URANUS
SMATKA
and other electronic acts....
starts 10pm and I believe its 5 pound at the door

28 Apr 2004  8PM-2AM  Lifthouse, Farringdon, London

1st act Rongwrong 9.00PM

2nd act [jerico one] 10.15PM

3rd act UM 11.30PM

2 floors of dj's

Note: UM hopes to play earlier than stated here. Like maybe about 10PM instead.

19 Apr 2004  8PM, possibly a little later  The Dublin Castle, London

UM
Hot Chip
Olympic Lifts

+ one more tbc

16 Apr 2004  8-ish?  Cafe Afrika

UM
Dave Crowbar
Bandanistas

15 Apr 2004  evening (8:30?)  Cambridge FC Football Ground

UM
Ruby Nichols

27 Mar 2004  8:30 or so  The Portland Arms again

The Volebeats
Thomas Truax
UM

24 Mar 2004  8:30  The Portland Arms

DAT Politics
Kevin Blechdom
UM

19 Mar 2004  evening  The Portland Arms

Ruby Nicholls
Animals On Wheels
UM

£3 entree

18 Mar 2004  evening  Montague Arms, Queens Road, Peckham

don't know as yet

check:

www.sickhappyidle.com

for details

6 Mar 2004  sometime very early in the mor  33-35 COMMERCIAL ROAD, E1

please note this party starts 5th March!!!

bands
CHARLOTTEFIELD
ELECTRICITY COMES FROM OTHER PLANETS
THE MAN FROM URANUS
UM
SPINMASTER PLANTPOT
DAVID CRONENBERGS WIFE
SAM AMANT
FINK
GO RIMBAUD
AND OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS

CYBORgpunk AntIFolk ELECTROjuNkIE psykO biLly

LATE NIGHT LIVE MUSIC FEST
5TH MARCH
DOORS 10PM
5 QUID DONATION

33-35 COMMERCIAL ROAD, E1
sshh.. go thru purple shutter and up to second floor
closest tube aldgate east

5 Mar 2004  6pm - 8:30  Tate Britain, London

BLANG CANVAS
Friday March 5th
6 00 to 8 30
The Tate Britain, Pimlico
Free admission.
And reduced price admission to a new exhibition In-a-Gadda-da-Vidda featuring an array of artists including Damien Hirst.

More details when I know them but there's a lots of acts doing 2 songs each.

29 Feb 2004  evening  Club 85, 74 Whinbush Road , Hitchin

Club 85
74 Whinbush Road
Hitchin
Herts

£2.00

Psychoyogi
UM
Michael Burke (no,not that one)
My Pet Junkie ( acoustic )

28 Feb 2004  evening (8:30?)  King's College

chevron [live] - planet mu
klipp av [live] - audiovisual breakbeat cutting. from cambridge and sweden, no less.
um [minidisc/vocals/dj'ing]
man from uranus [on theremin]
+ dj'ing from rhombencephalon and da polygon crew

19 Feb 2004  9PM - 1:30AM  The Kambar, Cambridge

Line up might well be something a bit like this:





DJ Anna!





DJ Pete!





DJ Louisa!





DJ Andrew!





DJ Susan!

11 Feb 2004  evening  Cafe Afrika

Eclectic: Cabaret At Cafe Afrika
Event Date: 11th February 2004
February sees the second "Eclectic: Cabaret at Cafe Afrika". After the storming
success of the first event in December, we're back with an eclectic mix of the
classic, contemporary and avant-garde.

Join the talented MC Simon Lee Morgan and enjoy some hyper-modern art rock,
mellow jazz tunes, experimental film, Arabic dance and some very special poetry.

First up, experience the energetic apathy of UM, rocking the joint with dark
tunes to jump, jive and swing to.
Filmmaker Barnaby will present a short audio-visual piece that's guaranteed to
attack the senses and stimulate the mind.
Between acts, DJ BBQ Dan will be playing some funky tunes. Punters will be
split between getting a drink and hitting the dancefloor.
The grooves will continue with Zia's exotic and expressive Persian and Arabic
dance. The audience is destined to howl for more.
Straight after, discover some thought-provoking poetry from Brad, focussing on
workplace experiences and politics.
The night concludes with some Jazz tunes featured in some of Broadway's best
shows, sung by Lauren and keyboard accompaniment. Superb singing from a superb
performer.

Eclectic: Cabaret at Cafe Afrika is a semi-regular Cabaret night at
Cafe Afrika that will to bring you the most eclectic mix of art and
performance in the region.

Children are welcome, however, adult themes may be addressed by
performers so parental discretion is very much advised. The Cabaret
starts at 8pm, Wednesday the 11th of February. Three pounds on the
door, two pounds concession.

Date: 8pm Wednesday 11 February
Location: Cafe Afrika Sturton Street Cambridge
Door: £3 concession £2
Phone: 07961343592
Email: cabaret@simonmullen.com
Poster: http://homepage.mac.com/badpigeon/.Pictures/poster_second_event.gif

5 Feb 2004  8:30 - 12 midnite  The Devonshire Arms, Devonshire Road, Cambridge

DJ Dan

DJ Nightingale

DJ Water (Pete UM)

(who has been encouraged to play whatever the hell he likes, within reason or without, amen)

31 Jan 2004  night  The Boat Race, Cambridge

The Broken Family Band + Right Turn Clyde + Greg McDonald



+ um compere-ing and doing quick tunes


£7 / £6 adv.

22 Jan 2004  9PM - 1:30AM  The Kambar, Cambridge

Usual suspects do the usual thing

21 Jan 2004  8PM  The Portland Arms

UM and ERGO PHIZMIZ

and the lovely

MAN FROM URANUS

10 Jan 2004  afternoon sometime  Notting Hill Arts Club, London

UM
Sgt. Buzfuz
Man From Uranus

18 Dec 2003  nighttime  The Portland Arms here in Cambridge

This is how Steve Adams from The Broken Family band puts it:

> > > > > > We're having our annual Christmas concert at The Portland Arms
>on
> > > > > > Thursday 18th December. We're keeping it kind of quiet so only
>the
> > > > > > faithful attend, but it should be a blast. RUBY NICHOLLS
>(featuring
> > >Bugs
> > > > > > from Hofman) are supporting, it'll be 5 quid to get in and all
> > >proceeds
> > > > > > are going the the Premature Baby Unit at the Rosie Maternity
> > >Hospital,
> > > > > > Cambridge. Hopefully UM will be DJing, but we haven't asked him
>yet,
> > >so
> > > > > > it might end up being us.

And it shall be me.

16 Dec 2003  8PM-10PM  Radio 209 HQ

We here at 209radio/Charlie Don't Surf are pleased to announce that Cambridge's very own digital poet, UM, will be guesting on next week's studio radio show from the 209 HQ.

www.umbusiness.co.uk

www.tripelrecords.com
The Irreducible Representation Tues 16th Dec 2003 8-10pm GMT ft UM LIVE

Tune into www.209radio.co.uk

4 Dec 2003  nighttime  The Kambar, Cambridge

3 Dec 2003  8:30 or so  The Boat Race, Cambridge

details to be confirmed, but it's free and Um will play.

29 Nov 2003  8:30 or so  The Portland Arms

Ruby Nicholls
(long-awaited debut from Bugs-out-of-Hofman's new band)

+

non-awaited special guest appearance by UM, who has been around for a while.

25 Nov 2003  8:30 or so  The Bull & Gate, London

UM
Leit Motif

20 Nov 2003  9PM - 1:30AM  The Kambar, Cambridge

Susan
Andrew
Peter
The New Girl

13 Nov 2003  8PM  The Prior's Inn, Bury St. Edmunds

The Secret Hairdresser
www.planetbeet.tk
www.thesecrethairdresser.tk
www.animal-planet.tk
www.thecovertstylist.tk
www.volunteers.tk
www.laprecords.tk

+ YumiYumi
www.yumiyumi.net

+ UM

11 Nov 2003  evening (8:30?)  The Free Butt, Brighton

UM

+?

6 Nov 2003  nighttime  The Kambar

It's back.

1 Nov 2003  evening (8:30?)  Crown Plaza Hotel, Cambridge

Um performance scheduled...

The ultimate wedding band.

21 Oct 2003  8PM  The Portland Arms

UM

Felix Kubin

http://www.felixkubin.de/

10 Oct 2003  ?  White Trash Fast Food and Restaurant, Berlin

Yes, the whole Berlin trip got shelved. Might be being rescheduled for December. Till then I'm just going to lie back and keep my thoughts on England.

9 Oct 2003  ?  C-Base, Berlin

This gig is not happening now but this is what I wrote when I thought it was:



Don’t know a hell of a lot about this gig but I’ve always wanted to go to Berlin and pretend to be somebody else. It seems to be the 4th birthday party of some musical equipment business of some kind. This is what they say about it on their website:


Oct. 10th: Bordsynthese For our fourth birthday, SchneidersBuero has put together a party at the C-Base with friends and artists, inventors and technicians with electronic music from europes centers:Well known friends from Berlin (toktok, flowinimmo), artists from London (UM, KRUBURN) some of Viennas prominents (gameboy music club, Herbert Weixelbaum), musicians from Frankfurt(Voiceheads) and VJ Michael Junck will deliver the lineup for one of the first concert nights in the C-Base mainhall next to the spree river.Between 9 and 10 pm admission is free and afterwards it costs only 8 Euros for all non-members of the club. www.c-base.org

19 Sep 2003  I don't know  Dachstock Reitschule Bern, Switzerland

UM!
The Man From Uranus!
Brain Of Morbius
DJ Dolomite

16 Aug 2003  doors 2PM  The Prior's Inn, Bury St. Edmunds

Sunday 17th - PLANET BEET 1st Birthday All-Dayer - lots of our fave bands playing (including: CHRIS TT, ANTIHERO, We Start Fires, Proudhon, bouvier, UM, the light outside (dom & rob), deviation), FREE Planet Beet "BEETBOX" Compilation CD to every paying customer!!!! Doors open 2pm. ID will be required to buy alcohol. 14+ gig. (+DJ Sparks, Zach + others) - £7 (incl. free CD while stocks last)

11 Aug 2003  8:30  The Fridge bar, 1 Town Hall Parade, Brixton

UM
Man From Uranus
Brain Of Morbius
DJ Dolomite/Big Jim
(I, Ludicrous were going to play but are now not)

£3 with flyer

7 Aug 2003  8PM  The Portland Arms

A fundraiser for the neo-natal intensive care unit at the Rosie Maternity Hospital





The Broken Family Band



Jazz (RTC)



The Pony Collaboration



Um



Bomb Factory





Friday, August 8th Doors 7.30pm

6 pounds (ssh - it’s for charity)



The Portland Arms, Cambridge
-------------------------------------------------------------

18 Jul 2003  8PM-2AM  the Verge, Kentish town road

D.A.M.NED LIES + ALL THAT NOISE
NITE OF ART ELECTRIC NOISE ART
19TH JULY 2003 8pm-2am
@ the Verge, Kentish town road
BANDS: ablackcat – vacuum on vacuum
dans mon salon – others acts t.b.c.
DJ’S playing no wave-noise-freak out
+ ponderings * 4/5.

Attention! UM has pulled out of this gig for no good reason!

12 Jul 2003  afternoon onwards  The Boat Race

Midsummer Alldayer - Acts TBC
Sunday 13th July @ The Boat Race. £5

All dayer number 4 and we've moved up to a bigger venue to accomodate more people and some bigger bands. We've got a mix of Green Mind regulars and some big headliners in the pipeline. Currently pencilled in are Black Nielson, C64, Four Day Hombre, Cosy Cosy and some special guests who we're keeping under wraps for now.

UM IS COMPEREING THIS EVENT, DOING SOME SONGS RANDOMLY AND DRINKING IN A VERY FOCUSED WAY.

I don't know why I let Simon Baker talk me into these things.

10 Jul 2003  7:30  The Boat Race

Um: 8 - 8.30pm: www.umbusiness.co.uk

The Visit: 8.50 - 9.20pm www.thevisit.org

Go!Cartel: 9.40 - 10.10pm www.gocartel.co.uk

The Vaults: 10.30 - 11pm www.thevaultsmusic.com

8 Jul 2003  8:30  The Portland Arms

09/07/03
man from uranus
electrical music show

The Portland,
129 Chesterton Road
Mitcham's Corner, Cambridge, 8:30
Price: tbc


> www.verot.net/mfu

um

> www.umbusiness.co.uk

22 Jun 2003  8 sharp  The Portland Arms

THIS GIG IS CANCELLED!!!

Date: Monday 23 June 2003





Town: Cambridge





Line up: Kevin Blechdom (He's a she! Laptop/banjo action on





Tigerbeat6/Chicks on Speed records), Black Wire (hot new Leeds electropunk














trio), Um, dj Adbot

20 Jun 2003  8PM  the michaelhouse cafe, cambridge, england

The First (International) Cambridge Festival of Looping
when : june 21st 2003, from 8pm
where : the michaelhouse cafe, cambridge, england

where's that? : http://www.michaelhouse.org.uk/

who : rick walker's loop.pool http://www.looppool.info/
theo travis http://www.theotravis.com/
darkroom http://www.collective.co.uk/darkroom/
cos chapman http://www.rudemechanicals.org.uk/
pete UM http://www.umbusiness.co.uk/
peter chilvers http://www.burningshed.com/chilvers/


how much : £5/£4

enquiries : info @ cambridge-loopfest.org.uk

6 Jun 2003  all day  Midsummer Common, Cambridge

http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/

20 May 2003  evening (8:30?)  The Boat Race

Details to be confirmed but:

Bands with short names night special

UM
1st

+ more

20 May 2003  evening (8:30?)  The Boat Race

UM

+?

15 May 2003  ?  The Tate Britain

Obviously this won't happen. But it might! Watch this space for details.

Stop press: It is happening!

Details:

LATE AT TATE

Ricky Spontane:
If Modigliani formed a garage band with George Formby and Fats Domino, it would sound something like the legendary Ricky Spontane. Described in the MNE as a 'throbbingly hot (if hideously ramshackle) band who crudely hammer rockabilly, skiffle, Jarvo-esque English lyrical whimsy and a post-Elvis / pre-Beatles early-'60s Britpop Mk 1 sensibility to the chugga- thumpa buzzsaw skippety-hop of primitive punk'

http://www.lowsleysound.co.uk/index2/index2.htm

UM:

Pete UM a.k.a UM, considers himself a ‘Community Popstar’. Performing his idiosyncratic brand of experimental entertainment, his music has been described as ‘the musical lovechild of Ray Davies and Genesis P Orridge’. He produces amateurish free-association lo-fi sound-collages using various sound-making devices which become the backing tapes for array of sad and funny songs that sound like they've broken on the way to the speakers. In the same way that Bushmen hunters mimic the movements of their prey as they walk in their footsteps, UM feeds on the audience's collective urge to be entertained by something new.

www.umbusiness.co.uk

Master:

Master is a collaborative project between three Nottingham based artists. They describe their performances as 'sonic experiments', however, instead of the usual high technological approach that might be more readily associated with contemporary sonic art, they draw on the simple structures of traditional folk music. Using an assortment of instruments including banjo's, ukulele's, clarinet's and on some occasions wooden toys, they create odd unsettling noise which they define as 'tea-fuelled nu-bastard amateur rap'

14 May 2003  22:00-02:00  the junction

15/05/03 : ************loopsoup*************
>live...

rosedale electric chord orchestra
digital warfare, um, ed cox,
vacuum on vacuum, psatan crew

>dj's...

funky ninja, steves evil twin, damo,
donkey valium, miss charlie b, krooky,
axwax, pete&dan(vov), dans mon salon,
ben-jah-min

elec-tech-funk-break-ambi-hip-jazz-dub-tronica

the junction: 22:00-02:00 : £5
check the online flyer here:
http://www.loopsoup.com/flyer.htm
**********************************

11 May 2003  8PM, possibly a little later  The Prior's Inn, Bury St. Edmunds

MONDAY 12th - RBK LIVE + tbc + KANE (10 year old human beatbox!!) (+DJ MCR67 (from Sureshot -Norwich))

tbc = UM in this instance, you understand...

18 Apr 2003  8PM  The Arts Cafe

Microphones
Scout Niblett
April 12th March The Arts Cafe The Microphones are a one-man band in which Phil Elvrum (Old Time Relijun, D+) makes soft, psychedelic nylon-stringed guitar jangle sound both humble and heroic. While operating in an all-analog "lo-fi" mode, in the vein of Elephant 6 collective bands such as Olivia Tremor Control, Elvrum's no wannabe. All the musical elements gel with concept and breathe with the sort of spooky, misty clarity that arguably can only be captured in an intimate, non-digital production.

With his voice warm and reserved theres something invitingly amateurish about Elvrum's songs. They sound almost as if they were never meant to be heard, utterances of the heart bereft of any conscious artistry, relying on their own inherent beauty. The solitary quality of the Microphones could be compared to that of Bright Eyes, Syd Barrett, and Graeme Jefferies. Songs about small towns, birds, the sea. Simple, elemental things imbuded with their own preciousness, in the eyes of Elvrum weaving them into his songs. Lo-fi in both sound and virtue, and not to be missed.


Scout Niblett
From the Half Japanese school of music-making, and sounding like early Cat Power or PJ Harvey, Scout Niblett heralds the amateur's capacity for imaginative experience.

UM:
UM is this skinny geezer from East Anglia with nuthin' to lose.



VENUES

Address:
28 Commercial St
London E1

Tel: (020) 7247 5681


Travel:
Aldgate East Tube
Hammersmith & City Line
District Line

13 Apr 2003  evening  The 12 Bar Club, London

UM


<
The Broken Family Band


<
+ others presumably

11 Apr 2003  evening  Buffalo Bar, Islington

UM
Vic Twenty
And Django

line up tbc

8 Apr 2003  night  The Portland Arms

UM!

+

Thomas Truax (all the way from New York)

27 Mar 2003  8:30 or so  The Portland Arms

UM

The Vichy Government

Possibly Susan doing something too

19 Mar 2003  8:30  The Portland Arms

19/03/03
the chap
(lo recordings)
The Portland,
129 Chesterton Road
Mitcham's Corner, Cambridge, 8:30
Price: £3 / £4



Named after after the modern gentleman's publication which offers advice on the semiotics of smoking and has a "sartorial agony" page, London's The Chap make `pop songs with lyrics about courage, modesty, sex and asthma' backed with driving krautrock- new wave-disco with strings and cut-up beats. Defying any easy comparisons, sonically The Chap maybe come on something like an update on Wire meets early Stereolab, with similarities to retro-futurist labelmate Cursor Miner.

NME's review of their recent `I Got Flattened by a Pig Farmer' 7" described The Chap as `a truly far out music that embraces novelty, bunks up with surrealism and gives birth to freakish Dadaist disco babies. You'll love it but you sure won't understand it.'

The Chap return to Bad Timing as part of their first UK tour.

> www.lorecordings.com
> www.lorecordings.com/thechap/right.html

um
(tripel)


> www.umbusiness.co.uk


dj man from uranus
Archives, radiophonics, Bruce Haack, Raymond Scott, live theremin.

18 Mar 2003  at night  The Cellar, Oxford

UM

other acts tbc

12 Mar 2003  evening (8:30?)  The Portland Arms here in Cambridge

UM


The Rude Mechanicals

13 Feb 2003  at night  The Boat Race

UM!
Eggboy!
Steve's Evil Twin!
Vacuum On Vaccuum DJs!

12 Feb 2003  8 till late  PUBLIC LIFE, 82a Commercial Street, LONDON

Ringsting Recordings Presents:

HOT CHIP live PA
UM live PA
DESKANT WREKORDER live PA

visuals by MANKF

dj sets from: Nick Forgacs, Pete UM, Mankf, Hot Chimp

PUBLIC LIFE, 82a Commercial Street, Feb 12th 2003, 8 til late, FREE ENTRY.
Aldgate East/Liverpool Street Tube

5 Feb 2003  8:30  The Boat Race

*** Um *** Imagine if Ray Davies had been in Throbbing Gristle.

*** Simon Baker *** Known for his tireless efforts as a rock promoter,
he will be making a rare appearance behind a guitar...

*** The Christena Maloney Band *** Acoustic Rock. With all that the
capital letters imply.

*** Apathy *** New young musicians who should be angrily thrashing away
at electric guitars, but have instead chosen to take the acoustic path.

1 Feb 2003  afternoon onwards  don't know! (London)

I know nothing!

20 Dec 2002  evening  The Boat Race

Tickets are £4 adv £5 door. They can be bought from www.wegottickets.com or reserved at the boat race on 01223 508533.

Line up is:

Fonda 500
Broken Family Band
Los Planetos Del Agua
UM.

Friday 20th December 2002. rock.

7 Dec 2002  at night  The Cow

No real idea as to what this is about or who else is playing but I suspect its some kind of pre-Good Times event.

6 Dec 2002  8PM, possibly a little later  wherever you are

Tripel records are an independent record company run


by obsessive music junkies Dave Henson and Andrew


Coleman. One fine evening out on the town the idea to


start a record label came up. This moment of clarity


spawned an obsession and with the help of friends,


quality kung fu videos, personal introverted


psychological battles and various worldly pleasures a


peace of mind was established and thus a record label


was born.





Tripel records plans to release electronic music


created by three individual artists who are


desperately trying to keep it together by escaping the


mundane routine of a "9 to 5" working lifestyle.


At Tripel records we believe that electronic music is


not a style of music but a method of working. This


chosen method allows us the freedom to compose and


produce music, which is personal to us and hopefully


relevant to you!





Artists





Ascoltare


New name and work from Dave Henson, a mentalist


individual who has realised that in order for himself


to remain relatively sane he must abandon music


altogether. However, the likelihood of this scenario


feels impossible for a sensitive man whose love of


music weighs far more important than a harboured


mental disposition. Ascoltare (from fhe Italian word


for `to listen') is fine-grained and structured


electronica with environmental and acoustic samples


giving a spatial and organic feel. As well as


continuing the explorations of melody of his previous


work in Mouse Finding The Key and Gwei-Lo, Ascoltare


has a diversity encompassing excursions into abstract


dub and experimental texture.





The Arbury Hum


An agent of chance whose latest sonic excursions


employ the ideas found from equipment failure, micro


sounds, field recordings, noise and minimal music.





Andrew Coleman


Andrew Coleman is perhaps best known for his alter ego


Animals on Wheels. Under that moniker, he has released


two albums and an EP for the highly respected Ninja


Tune label, in addition to numerous 12"s and


compilation appearances on his own landmark Bovinyl


imprint. Along with Bovinyl mate Adam 'Vert' Butler,


Coleman was largely responsible for the UK jungle


offshoot 'drill n' bass' scene. Gone are the


rapid-fire breakbeats and abrupt mood shifts of the


past. Instead, Coleman has emphasized the rich melodic


textures that always held the foundation of his best


work.





UM





sorry pete, no info as yet..





Anybody willing to get this together.

4 Dec 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

Wednesday 4th December 2002: Bad Timing Christmas Party with V/Vm

Wearing pig masks and chicken suits and coming on like a smalltown chart covers act from hell (their show includes dispensing cabbage and roses into the audience), Stockport's V/VM make the best worst pop albums in the world ever.

Their `Sick Love' collection includes all the Shakin' Stevens, Chris de Burgh, Robbie Williams and Gareth Gates songs you never wanted to hear again, butchered and mechanically recovered like you've never heard them before, with results that are both truly terrible and horribly familiar. And what Christmas party would be complete without classic versions like `Missingtoe and Whine' and `Last Christmess'?

Making a very rare live appearance for Bad Timing, V/VM have previously shared bills with Sonic Youth, and Aphex Twin and collaborations with copyright violators worldwide include People Like Us, Stockhausen and Walkman and Kid606.

Plus Um, DJ Chuck Schuldiner, Kirk Leatham (presents the Christmas Spirit), bad timing regulars and *all* the trimmings ...

Advance warning: V/VM have specifically requested strobe lighting for their set. Sorry to those this affects.

27 Nov 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

'An Evening of Psychedelic Drone Music'.

"It will also have projection and lights from Chris Massey-Lynch and plenty of rugs, joss sticks singing bowls and spaced heads!"

So I'm doing a drone set!

20 Nov 2002  evening  The Boat Race

Apparently i have arranged this gig whilst drunk and so had no memory of the engagement until Paul Christoforou informed me that I was playing. I have checked with Sam Inglis and it is true. This is bad.

13 Nov 2002  8PM  The Portland Arms

11 Nov 2002  8PM  12 Bar Club - Denmark Place, London

UM
Broken Family Band (reduced line-up)
Thomas Truax
(New York antifolk guy who makes his own instruments)

25 Oct 2002  in the night  The Boat Race

UM
Rude Mechanicals
The Babysitters

I think.

18 Oct 2002  7PM-2AM  King's College

DJ alexis
DJ felix &
DJ joe have confirmed

plus DJ Pete!

And Matt Wand from pranksters Stock Hausen & Walkman doing a Gameboy set!

Yaroo!

7 Oct 2002  8PM till late  Public Life, 82a Commercial Street, London E1,

Note change of date!

Ringsting presents: Hot Chip+Um+Mankf at Public Life, 82a Commercial Street, London E1, 8pm til late (probably 1ish).

2 Oct 2002  10PM onwards  Upstairs at The Garage

Usual suspects for the first Retro Electro in London...

29 Sep 2002  7:30 onwards  The Junction, Cambridge

UM
Ascoltare
Douwayne Soudahek (or someone)

and,

KID 606

Please fucking come.

24 Sep 2002  eventide  CB2 Norfolk Street Cambridge

UM
Ascoltare
Andrew Coleman

Plus Bad Timing DJs

11 Sep 2002  evening time  12 Bar Club

CUSHY PRODUCTIONs
@ 12 BAR CLUB
Denmark Place, London WC2
Tel: 020 7209 2248



Thursday 12th September


RHATIGAN
MADAM
JACK HAYTER
UM


MADAM is the gorgeous Sukie Smith's band. Cushy aficionados will remember her playing for us a couple of years ago, but her other life as an actress has kept her too busy to play music recently despite a few attempts to coax her down. At last she and friends Adam Franklin -ex Swervedriver -guitars, Gavin Pearse - ex Minxus -guitars keyboards, Chris Clarke -ex Rockingbirds- bass and Jeff Townsin -Sophia on drums will augment her sparse intense alt/folk songs. Think a brunette Marianne Faithful circa Broken English.

JACK HAYTER is one of those musicians whose enthusiasm and soul add depth and texture to every band and record he works on. Most of you will know him as the lap steel, guitar, keyboard and harmonica accompaniment in HEFNER in recent years, but he has also worked with among others; TRAM, MARK MULCAHY, BITTER SPRINGS, RHATIGAN and SPONGE FINGER. At last he is releasing his solo album which he recorded with Darren Hayman. It is called 'PRACTICAL WIRELESS' and will come out imminently on Kosher records distributed by Shell Shocked here and it is garnering rave reviews in America and healthy radio play on College stations. It has that lofi quirky folk tilt you might expect. Great stories great playing,great. http://www.jackovision.com

Who on earth is UM, you may ask. Well, when my friend David McGinnis, the man behind the recent HINTERLAND evenings emailed me about him, I was intrigued... "A couple of weeks ago I saw an amazing performance by an act from Cambridge called Um. It's just one guy, Pete Gregory, and it was his first London appearance. He was supporting my friends Lomax after being 'discovered' doing his bizarre show at an acoustic night in Cambridge. I strongly recommend checking him out and booking him if you have a free slot. He has something out through the Burning Shed label (web sales only) and I think he has given some stuff to charity shops in Cambridge to sell. He sings/talks/mc's over tapes of himself singing/talking/mc-ing with cracked up synth/electronic backing. He is quite tall, has a box full of hats, a toy monkey and does very entertaining dancing. He will be a great addition to any bill. Honestly, my jaw was on the floor." Need I say more? http://www.umbusiness.co.uk



£5/£4 with flyers

Doors 8pm






CUSHY PRODUCTIONs

www.cushyproductions.com
info@cushyproductions.com

London: 00 44 (0)207 735 7034
Mobile: 00 44 (0)7786 857 473

Dublin: 00 353 1 853 2526
Mobile: 00 353 (0)87 224 0055

6 Sep 2002  afternoon till late  Argyle Street Housing Co-op

Uh...





Lots of DJ-ing probably including me, Big Pete, Andy Barlow





And UM and Rob Jesus. Possibly some Boysnatch action. Colin.





Maybe Fluffy James.


Maybe some kind of jam thing...





Tim Cumine was meant to play, as was Andy (Captain Rock). But they're not now, the cunts.

20 Jul 2002  7:30  The Red Cow

Me and Iain McDaniel trying to out-discofunk each other, or something

14 Jul 2002  7PM onwards  Alex Wood Hall, Norfolk Street, Cambridge

UM
Tim & Daniela

I'm including this after the fact so I'm not sure if I've got the date right or whatever. I just wanted to record the fact that I played such an unrock gig and that it was bleedin' awful, although the video that Daniela took is damn funny when she focuses shamelessly on the faces of the five or six people who are shifting uncomfortably on their plastic chairs and under the fluorsecent light wishing they were anywhere, anywhere but there at The Alex Wood Hall. Only time I've ever been embarrassed onstage. I blushed. Usually I like to do unlikely gigs because I can mine the situation for dumb funniness, but this gig proved to me that sometimes there is no grist.

1 Jul 2002  8PM  93 Feet East, which is in London.

UM Live!

Supporting:

American Analog Set and Radio 9

1st on, 30 mins, at 8

24 Jun 2002  evening (onstage 10:30)  The Champion Of The Thames

Club Fasterdaddy and the Morning People present:

* Um * The missing link between Beck and the Residents.

* Emily and Andrea * The missing link between the Indigo Girls and the Go-betweens.

* Rob Jackson plus special guests * The missing link between Bill
Frisell and Chet Atkins.

* Sam Inglis * The missing link.

24 Jun 2002  12:30 AM  37 Romsey Terrace

Jimbo and his mates have finished their degree!


Alexis is on the decks!


UM is doing a set!

18 Jun 2002  evening  The Boat Race

I know nothing.

14 Jun 2002  from 2PM  Sketchworth

the Wild Skies Beer and Music Festival: the likes of:
The Broken Family Band, Rob Jackson, Dawn Parade, Delphi etc. etc.

Stetchworth near Newmarket. Beer festival with bands playing all day head
lined by the most unlikely band you've never seen - The Rockin' Armadillos -
from god know where. Open air theatre at 3.00pm, Two stages - woody room +
big stage.


& UM

11 Jun 2002  evening  Catch 22 (London)

UM


Montana Pete


Lomax

Catch 22, 22 Kingsland Road, London, E2
(nearest tube, Old St./Liverpool St.)

7 Jun 2002  all day!  Midsomer Common, Cambridge

Too much to mention!

UM plays live in the Green Area. Don't know what time but I'm second on.

5 Jun 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

Thursday 6th June
Club Fasterdaddy presents

THE FOLK ORCHESTRA vs. THE BROKEN FAMILY BAND
with guest referee: UM

This is the last ever Club Fasterdaddy show, featuring two giants of diluted 'roots' music lamely competing for the coveted FIVE POUND championship prize.

MARVEL as The Folk Orchestra stumble pathetically over their poncey instruments... GASP as The Broken Family Band feebly try to subvert an already tired genre... SIGH as these unisex musical failures rub your noses in their seedy personal noodlings... never before have alternative rock 'n roll, Romanian folk, punk and country music been allowed to fight it out in such a tiny space so pointlessly and with so little regard for feminine hygiene.

Expect tears of pure vomit to slide greasily down the sweaty cheeks of the evening's compere, as he gamely tries to conceal his shrivelled testes from the prying eyes of the deviant musicans, whilst singing some crap about goats over tapes.

No wonder its all over for Club Fasterdaddy; two years of superb quality pop concerts down the drain. Still, there's free food for everyone, a prize-giving ceremony at the end of the evening featuring a really cheap strip-o-gram, and a free balloon for every child under 6 (subject to availability).

The Portland Arms, Chesterton Road, Cambridge
£3

www.folkorchestra.co.uk
www.thebrokenfamilyband.com
www.umbusiness.co.uk

31 May 2002  8PM  The Picture House Bar

dimitri's birthday special kalma @ the picture house
guest djs to be confirmed...free
7:30 - 11:00pm

I'm a guest DJ, I guess.

17 May 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

Dungeness


UM (compere-ing and doing small set)


Reynolds


Jet Johnson

14 May 2002  evening  Portland Arms

UM = compere





competing:





The Stars Of Aviation


Battle Ska


Big 10


Offering

10 May 2002  8PM  The Portland Arms

***Saturday 11th May
Club Fasterdaddy & Twisted am Lounge presents

CAPE CANAVERAL
Pavementy-cleverclogs-dumbass-joyous racket, underpinned with beautiful pop hooks and dressed in a sheen of odd keyboard sounds. Currently 'doing well' in London, and one of our favourite bands. www.cape-canaveral.co.uk
ANTONIA
Sassy (can we say that?) American chick with kickass country-pop-rock tunes and lovely three piece band. www.antonialive.com
UM
By now Peter Gregory should be needing no introduction... An all-singing (over tapes), all dancing (like there are bad drugs involved) one-man art-riot, whose greatness will only be fully appreciated by our children's children. www.umbusiness.co.uk

plus fancy DJs from the Twisted am Lounge giving it the large one.

three quid

7 May 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

May 8th
John Callaghan live
Home-electronic outsider cabaret from the farthest
reaches of the Warp Records back-catalogue ...

+ Um live
All-round microsound entertainer and singer

5 May 2002  8:15-11PM  The Portland Arms

I'm compere-ing and doing a few tunes.

The Dawn Parade
Embryonic
AR
Clayhed

competeing.

3 May 2002  evening  The Boat Race

I'm compere-ing and doing a few songs at this gig:

Black Nielson + The Broken Family Band + Dustball.


Saturday 4th May 2002 @ The Boat Race. £5. Click Here to buy tickets online (courtesy of OxfordMusic.net)








4 skinny boys straight outta Southampton on a mission to win the world with their own brand of lo-fi. Formed by Michael Gale, the songs were originally intended for a solo project inspired by Deus, Sparklehorse and Grandaddy. Members of his previous band heard the songs and liked em so much they came flocking back. The LP 'Still Life Hear Me' was released in November 2001 with the inkies slavering over it and peel, lamacq and radcliffe all played tracks from it. There's a nice picture of a zebra on the sleeve.

30 Apr 2002  9PM-ish?  The Sophbeck Sessions

After a heartbreakingly long absence, the reurn of Retro Electro, this time at The Sophbeck Sessions. Now in two rooms with live acts, including yer UM.
C'est fantastique!

25 Apr 2002  evening  Picture House Cinema

Loop Soup DJs
Video projections/live camera feed

17 Apr 2002  8PM doors  The Junction

Wild Skies CD launch with:

UM
Firefly
Flaming June
Rowenna Wiseman
Sunday Driver
Ricky Howlett (compere)
Humanity
Interlaken
Roots Vibration
The Broken Family Band
Right Turn Clyde

Plus Panic DJs

£4

16 Apr 2002  evening  The Boat Race

don't know anything yet but its me vs. the folkies I guess...

2 Apr 2002  evening  93 feet east (LONDON!)

UM Supporting LOMAX (a Pere Ubu-ish band, apparently)

30 Mar 2002  all day  The Portland Arms

Oxford – Cambridge All Dayer @ The Portland Arms. Saturday 30.03.02


“Any band that name themselves after a monkey and write a song with the line 'you're Leia and I'm Han Solo' ('Easy Tiger') are Okay with me. So it's a bonus that Cambridge's Right Turn Clyde come armed to the teeth with cracking emo-punk melodies too. Formed from the ashes of Hofman and The Saffs, RTC are one of those bands that can make a punk song sound like the most joyous three minutes of your life. And they do it with every track on '3'. 'Girls R Evil'is probably the pick of the bunch but there's really not much in it, as this is wall-to-wall quality.” KKKKK - Mark Griffiths

For further info go to www.rightturnclyde.co.uk





‘machines can make noises to fill the silence…’

The Cathode Ray Syndrome are fully paid up members of the post rock brigade, but with a manifesto and bile that’s all their own.

Formed in 2000 they have been wowing audiences in Cambridge on a regular basis since. An increasing maturity and clarity of vision has seen them shake off the shackles of the (un) holy trinity of mogwai and godspeed comparisons to forge their own path.

For further info go to www.thecathoderay.com



UM

can you use instruments in audio mulch? sure can, read the help file...sometimes those things can help.

UM, aka Pete Popstar is Cambridge’s premier electronic surrealist. Songs varying from mock ragga vocalising (‘boom titty ass, titty windy wind’) to intense introspection are all fair game with some of the most disorientating array of beats and noises since Mr. Richard D James last put sandpaper to record stylus. Make this man a star. Please.

The Young Knives

Little is known of these Oxford newcomers, formerly known as Ponyclub. ‘…the English Strokes, but with a sense of humour…’ was how one pundit described them. They are very 1979, Pere Ubu and even very early Supergrass. They are a three piece (Henry, Ollie and The House Of Lords) come from the Midlands but moved to Oxford about 3 years ago.




Dustball formed in 1995 and soon became an important part of the burgeoning Oxford music scene, finding ourselves under the microscope of a number of record companies before local indie label Rotator swooped to put us onto OXCD, a compilation of the area's best new bands.
The track, 'Yeah Yeah Yeah', served as an example of what was to come, as the nascent Shifty Disco label made us the first singles club release with an anthem to male pregnancy known as 'Senor Nachos'.

Dustball were picked as one of the four priority bands to be broadcast on Steve Lamacq's Evening Session as part of Radio 1's Sound City 1997. A joint EP ('A Quick One Too') with NØUGHT was released to coincide with the event, and attracted the attentions of John Peel, for whom we have recorded three sessions.

The album, Quality But Hers, appeared in special silver ball packaging in 1998. They split briefly but, joined by ace former Unbelievable Truth drummer Nigel Powell. they've come back stronger than ever with a whole host of new songs to show off.

Not shy since then and with a desire to play live, we have been seen in the past few months at the Oxford Punt, the Truck Festival, and Shelter benefit AUDIOSCOPE among other live dates.

For more info: www.dustball.co.uk or www.shiftydisco.co.uk



Yeah! Drugs! Rock and Roll! Six Ray Sun! Penguins! Hong Kong!
Straddling the divide between Hong Kong and the Home Counties, Six Ray Sun came together through a shared love of Suicide and Spiritualized. Four young men, two from the Far East, two from the South East spending twelve months constructing strange machinery in the radioactive sewers where Primal Scream's 'XTMNTR' is the closest thing to a national anthem, before emerging like mutant cyborg pop rats, armed with a clutch of violent cartoon-obsessed synthetic rock songs. Well anyway, two friends from Hong Kong, Justin’s Chau and Sweeting, met Andrew Gannon and Leigh Cohen at Bath University, which is a bit like a radioactive futuristic sewer, but with more prohibitive property prices, before relocating to Oxford and
forging their expansive form of sleek machine-driven music, Andrew's cocksure vocal style adding a human element to proceedings. 'Bad Batz Maru', named after the naughtiest penguin in Japan, is the debut outing for the band already hailed by Steve Lamacq as one of the best unsigned acts in the country on his 'Sessions Unsigned' slot. For more info go to www.sixraysun.com

South Sea Company Prospectus
Arrived in the wake of The Rock of Travolta, armed with an opulent array of unheard film scores and the soundtrack to an as yet unmade computer game involving mutant surfers riding a tidal wave into Hong Kong harbour. Part Death in Vegas, part Six By Seven, part Man or Astroman. Blinding stuff.

Neo
Yet more ex Saffs, this time ditching the day glo pop punk that brought him infamy. Greg took the darker side of neo and made it more wiry and tense and then recruited Kirsty and Brother Glen to form a shady and melodic shadow on the Cambridge scene.

21 Mar 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

Persil + Um + Pretty + Jozaq
Saturday 21st March 2002 @ The Portland Arms. £3.



Amsterdam husband & wife duo Persil second UK release following 2000's 'Agony Aunt' single. This is what the press have said:

'a burst of alluringly offbeat, synth assisted brilliance - more please!' Time Out

'off kilter, but utterly charming' Record Collector

'sounds more like Blondie than Blondie do now ' Guardian Guide

'strangely wonderful' NME

'squidy squidy squidy squidy,tingtingy doingydoingy .. ah. ' The Fly

The band recorded a session for Peel during their UK tour in 2000. This EP features a cover of the Wedding Present's "Kennedy" which has already been played by Uncle John. The last single was played heavily on both Peel's show and the Evening Session.

Not surprisingly they were asked to do and have just done a new Peel session in March when they will come over to the UK for a short tour to promote this EP release.

Support comes from the finest oddball selection Cambridge can muster. First on will be the bass led antics of Jozaq, which is the one man oddity that is Trevor ex of Cambridge wierdos Nyugati Palyaudvar. Expect nothing and everything from this man.

Next up is the electro/synth pop of Pretty. Pretty started out as a noisy guitar band and then shed most of the band, bought some samplers and completely re-invented themselves. Acidic squelches, smiths-esque lyricisms and a keen ear for a pop tune.

The main support is Um: The name says it all. confusion and a stream of conciousness lyrical style are married to rephlex/warp records style electronica. Make this man a star.

13 Mar 2002  evening  The Portland Arms

Bad Timing -- Cambridge's monthly night of
abstract/early electronics, digital lofi, minimalism
and randomness presents the following events at
the Portland, Cambridge, all £3, 8:30 start:

March 13th:
live: n.e.d. (nes.co/edmundez/drenching)
Pence Eleven copyright-infringement/micro-bootleg
side-project meets dictaphonism and ultra-prolific
Cardiff noisemaker Gwilly Edmundez. Genuine randomness
recently seen (Drenching) at the V&A, and previously
at the Moon as part of last year's DAC Festival.

+ Um / resident djs play plunderphonics, game music
and electronica

+ Cos (Rude Mechanicals, Loop Soup) plays a hyper-eclectic
selection

3 Mar 2002  afternnoon-evening  The Picture House Cinema

Usual Loop Soup suspects playing quiet, downtempo, possibly even boring records.

26 Feb 2002  9PM onwards  The Champion Of The Thames!

Sam Inglis
Some sort of Broken Family Bandline up featuring Steve, Jay, Rob Jackson and that new lady whose name I forget...
Clara Thingy

UM!

12 Feb 2002  evening  CB2

No fixed line-up. Get up there if you want to. And they did.

3 Feb 2002  3PM-10PM  The Picture House Arts Cinema

Don't know much about this except that its all DJ-ing (I think everyone's playing quiet/clever/arty stuff rather than house or metal or anything)and it's been organised by the boys at Marmora Road (Loop Soup posse).
Free to get in.

2 Feb 2002  10PM-3AM  The Junction

The UM Soundsystem.

Upstairs at "Good Times"

Featuring:

UM: PA + DJ
Alexis Hot Chip: DJ
Man From Uranus/Dans Mon Salon Soundclash - electronics/effects/theremin
+
Boysnatch
(Rob Jesus + Nathan Blunt from Pence Eleven).

15 Dec 2001  10PM on approx  ?

Don't know much about this yet.

12 Dec 2001  EVENING  THE PORTLAND ARMS

12/12/01
full live sets from
andrew coleman
aka animals on wheels (ninja tune/ntone)
Recently signed to Thrill Jockey.
Warmup set for dates next year.

www.everythingwasbeautifulandnothinghurt.com
www.animalsonwheels.co.uk
www.thrilljockey.com
um
www.umbusiness.co.uk

mouse finding the key
www.mftk.com

p.a.s.s. (ex glitch djs)
residents possible area djs play mego, fat cat split/splinter, touch, mille plateaux, tigerbeat6, schematic +++
> www.possible-area.org/dj.html

5 Dec 2001  see details  The Portland Arms

The final LEAPS event of 2001 will be:

plastic #3
A night of live and improv electronic music,
film/live soundtracking and ambient

(breaking news: Wreckless Eric has pulled out and UM has just pulled in)

Portland Arms, Cambridge
(Victoria/Milton Road corner)
8pm -- first act on around 8:20

Featuring:

Philip Joseph's Moonbuggy
Leaving Man From Uranus behind to explore electronic
space, with live theremin, radio and synthesis.
As seen reinterpreting Stockhausen at the DAC festival.

Studio 3
Norwich-based filmmaker Karen Hibberd shows recent
abstract work, tonight with live electronic soundtrack
from Brighton's Wreckless Eric.
http://www.wrecklesseric.com

Darkroom
Full set from Darkroom's live ambient instrumentalists
plus guest Peter Chilvers.
http://www.collective.co.uk/darkoom

Peter Chilvers
Chapman Stick ambient set from member of
Samuel Smiles, Alias Grace
http://www.burningshed.com/

Nemeton
Minimal electronic set from Adrian Newton (Wacah Chan)
http://www.heartofsky.org/


Members: £2 (or free before 7:30)
Non-members: £3 all night

http://www.leapsonline.org.uk/

4 Dec 2001  evening  The Sophbeck Sessions

The line-up is:-
Digital Warfare, Donkey Valium, Badcore, Dans mon salon,
Eggboy, Um, Alexander Beetle, Mouse finding the key, Pete
M, and Cos.
Visuals by Reel eyes, Ojovijo, Odd fish, and TeshM.
Tuesday 4th December, £3, Sophbeck Sessions, 8pm-1am
(last entry 11pm)


I think I might be on early. Ha ha.

1 Dec 2001  8PM on  The Portland Arms

Stop The War!

Benefit for anti-war, help afghans etc.



The Johnson Sound

UM

Right Turn Clyde

21 Nov 2001  in the night  The Portland Arms

Andrew Coleman ("Andy")
(AKA Animals On Wheels)
Thrill Jockey/Ninja Tune

Mouse Finding The Key ("Dave"
Ex-Gwei-Lo.

UM
("Pete")

plus P.A.S.S
(Ex Gltch DJs)

8 Nov 2001  9PM on  The Q Club

Another instalment of the strangely successful club, with the sort of loose poppy/electronic/60's menu.
Drink booze & dance.

26 Oct 2001  Details unnavailable  The Holiday Inn

Pete the wedding DJ.
Funk, 80's nonsense and charts I reckon.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. Apologies that the pictures are a bit irrelevant occasionally. Can't be arsed.

10 Oct 2001  9PM onwards  The Q Club

Retro Electro returns after a long absence. There were loads of people at the last one, and then we knocked it on the head because the students fucked off. Expect it will be painfully empty.

25 Sep 2001  Nightime  The Portland Arms

If I had such a thing, this would be against my better judgement.

14 Sep 2001  Midday-ish till 2AM  Argyle Street Housing Co-op

A special celebration of 20 years of ASH-Co-op, featuring:

Captain Rock
Woodworks
UM
Dave
a bloke who played blues guitar well
Andy/James/Steve jamming loosely

+ DJs inc. Andy (other Andy), Pete (other Pete), Vig and Liv. Maybe some other people after I passed out, I don't know.

23 Aug 2001  8PM  The Boat Race

UM DJ set incorporated into the Dead Secret "shit disco" concept.
Also featuring Dead Elvis (amongst others)

10 Aug 2001  8PM  The Portland Arms

Yes, the long-awaited Hugo's Mixed Fruit Jam* comeback tour is upon us, or sort of. UM will be attempting to reward attendees with a heterogeneous mix of experimental entertainment styles somewhere between performance art and nowhere, or singing-along-to-tapes as it has become known. The usual mirthless ear-pain, plus embarrassing interludes of spoken word, pointless showcasing of humdrum instrumental pieces, performance-dithering and a little sharing-session involving items from the silly section of my record collection. I cannot speak on behalf of Elias Bland, but the historically-minded amongst you will recall that I used to be in a band with a terrible name along with Rupert. There will also be challenging DJs. * A band with a terrible name.

7 Aug 2001  Evening  The Portland Arms

Once again this gig has been added to the gigography well after the event and my recollections of details are hazy. I believe Kev Laska DJed and I was a bit shit.

3 Aug 2001  Afternoon  Cambourne Village

Me in DJing and doing a couple of songs to a small family audience in a marquee whilst the rain fell heavily outside. Also appearing were:
Gamelan Degung
Ricky Howlett
Pinnochio
Puppets & Music
Woodworks
RiMM
Jewel Scarab
Hamlet
Band Arriba

29 Jun 2001  2pm - 10pm  Cambridge Museum of Technology

including rare oscilloscope action - The Old Lady
+ apes and lo-fi sounds & visions)
During the day at some point there will be UM-in-a-tunnel arsing around with tapes and slides and inanimate electronics. In the evening at some point (there must be some point?) there will be a (perhaps all-too-familiar) "normal" performance of the celebrated singing-over tapes method.

The DAC festival concludes this Saturday with an all-day event of electronic and experimental music, video, and sound installations with live performances all day. All this takes place in the setting of the Cambridge Museum of Technology, making use of its spaces and machine exhibits from all eras, from a Victorian rubbish incinerator to antique radios and a lightning generator.

Featuring:
Um (machines/performance),
Matt Rogalsky (radio-based installation/performance)
The Delta Family (installation/performance)
Darkroom (extended performance (day))
Wacah Chan (video installation/extended electroacoustic
performance (day))
Miss Roberts presents The Tongue Lecture (video installation/performance/water/objects),
Man from Uranus plays Stockhausen (radio/samples (day))
palmtop orchestra (performance)
3dm (electronica from Marc)
The MicroHenrys (performance by Man from Uranus and friends)
video by Tim Rowsell (day)
plus further installations


Day: 2-7pm £1 (inc. free drink and £1 off night event)
Night: 7-10pm £3 (£2 concs, LEAPS members or with day-ticket)


NOTE: The Museum is an unlicensed venue but please bring your own drink. Soft drinks will be on sale.

Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside entrance (turn off Newmarket Road at River Lane or Stanley Road and follow the river -- the museum is the building with the large chimney)

22 Jun 2001    The Man on the Moon

SPECIAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL FESTIVAL CAMBRIDGE EVENING.
UM & MOUSE FINDING THE KEY
being abstract and exciting and warring with each other,
&
MIDDLE CLASS RECORDS PRESENTS 'SERIOUS SJHAME LIVE'
PENCE ELEVEN
shouting, being punk through lack of ability, guilty looks,
DALLAS BONER
more electronic genius, sex dance,
RADIOACTIVE SPARROW
playing real instruments, with Fall-like collapsible melodies and being prolific,
THE PLEASURE-DRENCHING IMPROV. IMPROVERS' POGROM
husband & wife team improvising on dictaphones, bricks and pallet knives,
NES.CO.
flicking through his record collection and looking guilty, 3 CD players going at once in imperfect synch, moustache for one nite only.

1 Jun 2001  midday onwards  Midsummer Common

Me and Rob Jesus acted as comperes throughout the day (apart from a bit when WOB did it). Also did a brief UM slot sometime around 5 or 6PM.

31 May 2001  evening  CB2

Rob Jackson says:

Hello,

I know I said I wouldn't do this, but we haven't quite publicised this gig as much as intended so...

Friday 1st June, CB2, Norfolk Street, Cambridge.

Rob Jackson + Clara Kousah + Pete UM

Rob plays mellow instrumental music on an electric guitar. Clara sings contemporary Folk songs and plays an acoustic guitar. Pete performs songs, verging on poetry like you've never heard before. Quality and diversity from Cambridge music scene in the pleasant and atmospheric environment of the CB2 basement. Food also available, so get there early to grab a table.

Cost, not more that £3 I think. It will be nice, please come.

24 May 2001    Netcast from CamArt

including an UM performance and showing of recent UM video work, plus the music of various other Cambridge-based musicians, including Rob Jesus and Dharma Cola. Unconfirmed acts include Mouse Finding The Key & Sly Chimp.

18 May 2001  12pm - 12am  UM's bedroom studio

12 hours of continuous music mixed live. A unique and wonderful chance to hear a more representative selection from UM's catalogue of over 1500 recordings.

A digital camera will take a two second clip every one minute, ending up with, uh…roughly half an hour of disjointed nonsense. During the day very few people will come and it will be somewhat dull (tea and biscuits are provided).

Vast majority of the music will just be instrumental pieces from a variety of formats, including nasty old four-track stuff, so you have been warned. A proper performance with singing and stuff will take place at about 9PM (maybe a couple of sets, I don't know).

I'm planning to buy some red wine and some vodka. It's a sort of a pointless Warhol thing, and maybe a gentle dig at the usual Open Studio thing.

Please don't pitch up late and ring the bell endlessly (I haven't told my housemates about this yet) - just come round the back.

11 May 2001  Evening  The Portland Arms

Mouse Finding The Key/Delegates Of Culture/ DJ action from Sly Chimp/Um

9 May 2001    CCs

Another showcase for members of the Live Experimental Arts Performance Society. Also featuring Pence Eleven & Captain Rokk Hopefully I'm going to screen a short film too.

4 May 2001    The Portland Arms

Year Of The Artist performance with Rob Jesus & a special and rare DJ set from Andrew Coleman (Thrill Jockey, Ninja Tune).

This gig will be filmed for the online gig archives at the Portland Arms by the video production crew , and also by Jon Enkel, the ex-BBC cameraman who works at CamArt where UM is the artist in residence.

25 Apr 2001  evening  The Q Club

Drunken mixing and 80's pop, or shamanic ritual? Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Peaches, Telex, Chicks On Speed and other stuff.

3 Feb 2001  8PM  The Man On The Moon

Um news.

A last minute addition to the relentless Um touring schedule:

3-2-01 Man On The Moon, Norfolk Street Cambridge. This is this Saturday.

Um will be supported by Dans Ma Salon (a.k.a "Dimitri")

and:

a special pot luck selection of Middle Class Records artistes, the label that brought you Pence Eleven, so we might have Nathan's Bad Loops project (manipulation of CD players loop function), or Nes.Co (maybe this is the same thing, I'm never sure with Middle Class) or maybe THF Drenching or Menasor or even Dallas Boner.

Anyway, this gig has received little publicity, will not be well-attended, and will be over-wrought and disquieting.

Oh yeah there will be crap films in the background.

18 Jan 2001  9PM-onwards  The Q Club

Usual scenario
Me, Jamie, Susan and Louisa playing records.

1 Sep 2000  10PM - late  The Junction

UM brings "Bad Times" to "Good Times".

Featured:

Bee
Dave from The Teenbeat
Miss Roberts
Rob Jesus
Captain Rokk
UM
DJ Minion

13 Feb 1999  presumably at night  unknown, probably the Portland

I have found evidence that I played a gig on this date. I don't know where or who with or whatever.

23 Oct 1998  evening  The Portland Arms

17 Apr 1998  evening  The Portland Arms

Smegma + UM

1 Jan 1970  when it happens  the bowls of hell

voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing, voodoo is testing,